WILLIAM C. MARKHAM

WILLIAM COLFAX MARKHAM is a native of Ohio and the son of a Methodist minister. He attended the public schools in four different towns, and while living at Lorain had his first newspaper experience in reporting daily to the Cleveland papers the dock news from that port.

After spending three years at Baldwin University he came west with his parents, and graduated from Baker University in 1891. In 1892-'93 he took special work in history and politics in Johns Hopkins University, where he was a pupil of President Wilson. In August, 1893, he purchased the Baldwin Ledger, and is still its proprietor. He was postmaster of Baldwin City for thirteen years, and during nine years of that time was secretary of the Kansas Postmasters' Association. He organized the Southwest Postal Association, covering six states, and until his retirement from the postal service edited the Southwest Postal News. At each convention he published a daily paper. During the last year of his postal service he was secretary of the National Association of Postmasters, and at St. Paul ran a daily paper during the week of the convention.

He is the author of several plays covering events of Kansas territorial history, besides numerous short poems. In May, 1916, he was elected president of the Kansas State Editorial Association.

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