SETH G. WELLSfrom History of Kansas Newspapers (1916)
With the exception of a couple of years spent in California in the late eighties, Seth Wells has been connected with his newspaper, the Erie Record, since 1879. The greater portion of that time he has been the Erie Record, and thus the most consistently influential force in his county for a generation. He learned the printer's trade in the Record office, and subsequently became its foreman. After a series of adventures in other fields of endeavor, he returned to the Record in 1890. He has been the owner of the paper for fifteen years, and its guiding hand for twenty-five. Mr. Wells was born in Jersey county, Illinois, in 1863, and came to Kansas and Neosho county with his parents in the late sixties. His father, Judge J. A. Wells, was one of the prominent citizens of the early days, and the family has put its impress upon Kansas for nearly fifty years. Seth Wells was appointed postmaster at Erie by President McKinley in 1897, and held the office until he was elected state auditor on the Republican ticket in the fall of 1902. He was re-elected state auditor in 1904. Those who know Seth Wells best are his closest friends. They say of him that he never avoided battle, compromised with wrong, nor forgot a friend. CLICK TO GO BACK TO KANSAS NEWSPAPER EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS INDEX |
|
 |
A
MAN'S candle power is measured largely by his influence upon his own
community. In Neosho county, the first step in any public or political
project is to find out what "Seth" thinks about it. That is
to say, it is the first step unless "Seth," as in many instances,
chances to be the originator of the project. "Seth" is Seth
G. Wells, editor and owner of the 
