Howard TEDFORD, one of the rising newspaper men of Iowa, of the Ringgold Record. Howard Tedford was born in Tipton County, Indiana, May 30, 1870. His father is the well-known J[ames]. H[arvey]. TEDFORD, at the head of the firm of TEDFORD & Son, publishers of the Record, one of the leding county papers of southern Iowa. His mother was Elizabeth ROWAN, a native of New York, and descendant of the family of patriots of that name who took such a conspicuous part in the war for independence.

Howard attended the public schools of Tipton county, Indiana, and Ringgold county, Iowa. He entered Monmouth college at Monmouth, Illinois, but left college at the end of two years to enter into partnership with his father in publishing of the Record. While at Monmouth he was a member of the Eccritean society, and at the head of his class in all the branches of study.

He came to Iowa first with his parents in 1879, and located in Mount Ayr, which place has beenhis home ever since. His first manual labor was performed on the farm, but he early entered the newspaper business, in fact, his common school and college education has been augmented by a thorough printing office training, and thus by the theoretical and practical instruction he is fitted for the profession of his father. During his father's absence in Washington he had entire charge of the paper and then, in 1897, exchanged duties with his father in Washington, in order to get the experience of Washington life.

Like his illustrious sire, he is a republican through and through. he is president of the Eighth District Republican league, has been a delegate to several of its national conventions, and occupies a position of influence and usefulness in the league. He was chairman of the republican central committee of his county during the years 1895 and 1896. He is prominent in the order of Knights of Pythias.

NOTE: Howard married on June 4, 1902, Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa, to Anne "Regina" VALE.

SOURCE:
  GUE, B. F., Ex-Lieutenant-Governor [IA] Biographies and Portraist of the Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders in Business, Politics and the Professions, Together with a History of the State p. 464. Conaway & Shaw Publisher. Des Moines. 1899.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2009