WILLIAM C. AUSTIN

WILLIAM CLARK AUSTIN was born at Cottonwood Falls, Kan., in 1872. He is still a resident of his native city. His parents were from Vermont. Mr. Austin was educated in the public schools of Chase county and at the University of Kansas. He was instructor in the Cottonwood Falls schools for several years, and for three years engaged in the grocery business at Strong City. In 1903 he bought the Chase County Leader, a Republican weekly, and in 1909 bought the Strong City News and the Courant of Cottonwood Falls, consolidating them as the Strong City News-Courant, which he still owns. In 1904 he was elected as the Republican candidate for register of deeds of Chase county, and served two years, and in 1910 was elected state printer. Mr. Austin was the author of the uniform blank-book law passed by the legislature of 1911, which was the first law for uniform county records passed by any of the United States. He was re-elected state printer in 1912, and at the expiration of his term returned to Cottonwood Falls to manage his newspapers.

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