HARGRAVE, Arthur A.
Arthur A. Hargrave
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ARTHUR A. HARGRAVE is one of the veteran newspaper publishers and editors of Indiana. Since 1888 his editorial sanctum has been with the Rockville Republican. In more than forty-three years not a single issue of the Republican has appeared which has not contained something written by Mr. Hargrave, and that is probably an interesting record in the annals of Indiana journalism and is evidence of his fidelity to his duties as an editor. Mr. Hargrave is a man of interesting experience at home and abroad.
He was born at Portland Mills, Putnam County, Indiana, August 15, 1856, son of William H. and Susan (Bishop) Hargrave. Two years after his birth his parents moved to a farm in Putnam County, and when he was a boy of thirteen the family moved to Rockville. Thus his youth was divided between the attractions and routine of a farm and rural life and one of the progressive small towns of the state. He began his education in a country school, finishing the public schools of Rockville, and when seventeen entered the office of the Rockville Republican as a printer’s apprentice. After gaining a good knowledge of his trade he decided that his future career required a better education and in 1876 he entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville. He made a splendid record as a student and in extra curricular activities, being one of the Baldwin prize essayists.
In 1881 he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree and subsequently was given the Master of Arts degree by that college. For a year after his college career Mr. Hargrave grave was a reporter for the Kansas City Journal and in the spring of 1883 went on the reporting staff of the Terre Haute Express. After a short time he resigned to accept an offer made by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for work in foreign lands. He was chosen by the board not for missionary service, but as a practical newspaperman and printer. He was sent to Oroomiah, Persia, where he was put in charge of the board’s printing establishment and treasury. The printing was done in the Syriac language, and he had to master that as a preliminary to handling the business efficiently. For some time he also edited the monthly publication Rays of Light, also printed in the Syriac language.
While in Persia Mr. Hargrave met Miss Marion S. Moore, daughter of the late Rev. E. G. Moore. They were married at Oroomiah, July 9, 1885. In consequence of the ill health of Mrs. Hargrave they returned to the United States two years later. They first located at Terre Haute, where Mr. Hargrave was assistant editor of the Expres8. Then, in the spring of 1888, he returned to Rockville and bought the Rockville Republican, to which he has given his unceasing devotion and all his talents as a newspaper publisher and manager. The Rockville Republican under his management has grown in influence and circulation, has become a substantial business, represents a large investment in plant and equipment, and measures up to the highest standards of weekly journalism in Indiana. Mr. Hargrave has made the Republican a reflection of his own views as a Republican in politics, but above all he has published a hometown paper supporting all measures and movements for the welfare of the community. Mr. Hargrave is a member and president of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Sanitarium at Rockville, and vice president for Indiana of the National Editorial Association. He has served as a trustee of the Rockville public schools, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hargrave were born five children. Their son, Palmer W., a businessman in Los Angeles, California, married Miss Anna McCabe, of Crawfordsville, and has two daughters. Clarence M., who is in business at South Bend, Indiana, married Miss Hellen Fletcher, of Detroit, Michigan, and has one daughter. Miss Ethel Hargrave is connected with the social service department of the Indianapolis public schools. William B., also in business at Los Angeles, married Mrs. Warren Ayres, of Crawfordsville, who has two children by a former marriage. The youngest of the family, Marjorie, was married to Wilson G. Tyler, Jr., of Birmingham, Alabama, and they now live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and have one daughter.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke & Fountain Counties, Indiana. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893, Page 375
Arthur A. HARGRAVE, editor and proprietor of the Rockville Republican, is one of the most prominent young business men in Parke County. He was born in Portland Mills, Putnam County, Indiana August 15, 1856 and is the son of William H. and Susan BISHOP Hargrave of whom further mention is made in the biographical sketch of the father, presented elsewhere in this volume. He was 2 when his father located on a farm in Putnam County and there spent the day of his boyhood, his time being devoted mostly to duties incident to rural life and his opportunities for education limited. When 13 our subject accompanied his parents to Rockville where he carried don his studies in the public schools. At age 17 he commenced to learn the trade of printer in the he office of the Rockville Republican. In 1876 he entered Wabash College, Crawfordsville from which institution he graduated in 1881, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While in college he was one of the Baldwin prize essayists and won considerable local fame through his high order of abilities. Upon leaving college Mr. Hargrave accepted the position of reporter on the Kansas City Journal and remained in that position 1 year, when he returned to Rockville Indiana the spring of 1883, he became reporter for the Terre Haute Express but evens soon afterward took place which induced him to resign that position for work in foreign lands. During the year above mentioned he was offered a position by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and at once sailed for Persia, where he took charge of the printing establishment of the Board at Oroomiah. The printing was done in the Syriac language, which he soon mastered. During a portion of the time spent abroad he was an editor of the monthly, entitled Rays of Light which was printed in the he Syriac language. While in Persia, Mr. Hargrave met Miss Marion S, daughter of Rev. E. G. Moore, now of Worthington, Minnesota, and the acquaintance ripened into love. They were married in Oroomiah, July 9, 1885. Two years later on account of the ill heath of Mrs. Hargrave they returned to the United States and for a time made their home at Terre Haute where our subject filled the position of assistant editor of the Express. In the spring of 1888 he came to Rockville and purchased the Rockville Republican which he has published ever since. At the time of the purchase the paper had greatly depreciated in value but Mr. Hargrave has succeeded in bringing it up to a high literary standard. New machinery has been added to the printing department, the typographical appearance of the paper has been improved and the circulation increased. The Republican is a weekly paper, Republican in politics and contains local news as well as items of general interest. The proprietor, as the paper is a strong Republican in his political belief and is one of the active workers in the ranks of the party. He takes considerable interest in educational matters and is one of the Trustees of the Rockville schools. His religious connections, as will be inferred from what has already been mentioned of his life, are with the Presbyterian Church. Socially he is a Mason.
Source: Terre Haute Star Mon 14 Aug 1950 p 1
Rockville, Ind Aug 13 – Veteran Editor Arthur A. Hargrave was honored tonight by colleagues in the newspaper field at a dinner at the Turkey Run Inn in celebration of his 94th birthday which is Tuesday. Former US Senator Raymond E. Willis of Angola presided at the occasion which was a complete surprise to the owner of the Rockville Republican. He thought he was going to have dinner with a couple of members of the family and kept wondering why he saw so many editors about who came up to shakes hands with him. Just before they went in to dinner, he learned he was the reason for his friends being at Turkey Run.
Born at Portland Mills in Putnam County on Aug 15, 1856, Mr. Hargrave moved to Rockville when he was eight years old. As a boy his first job was delivering the Rockville Republican and later he set type on the newspaper. After attending high school two years, he entered Wabash College from which he was graduated in 1881. He is the second oldest alumnus of the college.
Upon completion of his college work, he began his newspaper career reporting in Kansas City, Mo. He tells of riding with a posse chasing Jesse James after one of his escapades. In 1883 he returned to Rockville, expecting to purchase the Republican with his brother, but the brother backed out. The budding editor went to Persia for four years, working in the printing establishment of the Presbyterian Mission at Ooromia. There he learned the Syriac languages, as the establishment not only handled the mission work but some for the peoples nearby. It was at the mission that he met Mrs. Hargrave, a missionary from Joliet, Ill. They were married in Persia and their first child was born there.
Returning to Rockville in 1887, he bought the Republican and published his first issue April 11, 1888. Never an issue since then but that has had something in it which he has written himself.
Among those who attended the dinner tonight were Mr. and Mrs. EC Gorrell, Winamac; Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Craig and daughter, Miss Frances Craig, Delphi; Mr. and Mrs. ED Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Willis and Henry Willis, Angola; Mr. and Mrs. EW Schergens, Tell City; Mr. and Mrs. Foster Fudge, Crawfordsville; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Billings, Akron; Mr. and Mrs. James R. Benham, Terre Haute; Neil D. McCallum, Batesville; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Kendall, Martinsville; Mr. and Mrs. George J. Edick, Plainfield; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ridick, LaGrange and Mr. Hargrave’s daughter, Mrs. Edgar G. Henderson and son, William Hargrave, both of Rockville