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EARLY BAY CAREER OF D. B. \l CARVERRESIDENT WHO LIES IN CRITICAL CONDITION HAD UNIQUE HISTORY.CAME FROM EAST T3STABT PAPERWas Member of Firm of Ham Carver for a Period of Thirty-Four Years.In the serious and probably fatal Hl-ness of D. D. W. Carver of this city, newspaper circles especially realize the near passing of a member of tbe old school, a man whose early career here was bound up in active nows-papci work and whose passing fru*u the active field means the passing cf one of the pioneer men who helped to lay the foundations of the work here. Way back in Civil war times, Mr. Carver became associated with the late M. M. Ham In the newspaper work here and previous to that time his career had been one unique in newspaper circles of the state.His newspaper wcfrk began when he was a mere stripling of a youth down east. His entrance into the newspaper ikid of ke test wrs one uuiqoe.Noting an ad. in the eastern press to tin* affect that a certain Joseph Kelley (the founder of Charles City) would advance a neat sum of monlt; \ to any young newspaper man who would come west to start a paper in the Cedar Valley „ he immediately took the advice of Horace Greeley and came west. In the year 1856 he started the Charles City Intelligencer. thlt;* first paper of the place, and while publishing that pap. r was appointed postmaster under President Buchanan in 1862.Married in Charles City.It was in Charles City that he met. wooed, and finally won Mary Kelley, the charming young daughter of the founder of the city. There he mar-rteJ her and since 1S64 they have been residents of this city. Ten years ago he retired from his active newspaper work and has lived in retirement since.From the pen of the late M. M. Ham the following is taken and tells the story of the early career here of Mr. Carver as nssocia* j with Mr. Ham *u the firm of Hum Carver. He said: Mr. Carver was a practical printer and had been foreman of the Dubuque Herald from 1862. He had expected to leave in 1864. but by request had deferred going, and finally bought an interest in tin* establishment and so became a permanent feature.Firm Took Possession.“Tbe flrtn of Ham Carter took possession of the establishment on January L2. 1865 and continu**d as proprietors and owners until SeptemberD. D. VV. CARVER.that had come down from 1865, and was in existence at the close of the Civil war.‘The few firm names remained the same as tben but in most of th« *u there had been changes in the composition of their membership.“The year 1865, in which llam Carver struck out, was a more pro-1 pitious for business enterprises than the year 1864 had been when P. Robbvery manifestly :r. the Atlanta campaign.The Alabama was sunk at Cher- Co. had launched their newspaperbark upon the troubled waters. To b-i sure, the latter had little cause tocomplain, for the firm had madeenough to pay off its indebtedness if not the whole within a fraction of ’t and it will be admitted by all that a business concern that during its first year cun not onl\ pay its runaing expenses. but also wipe out a consider-1 able indebtedness that ia equal to aj good share of its total capital, has r.o ‘•special cause of complaint. That at least was what P. Robb Co. did andWell Knawn Resident and His Association of Early Day Newspapers.9. 1899, a period of thirty-four yeara seven months and twenty-seven days wh**n they sold to the Herald Printing company, which had been organiz d for the purpose of buying the property. The firm originally oraaniz *a i ‘the** hastily, continued in existence without change A any kind for more than a third of a century and towards the last was one of the very few in Dubuqueit inspired me with couflUenct*.Year Not Propitious.“Still the year 1864 was not a pr»-pitious year for any kind of business.! i it was the vtar when the fat* of the war was settled, aud people could b‘-nin to see which way it was going. The pivotal contests at Gettysou.gj and Vicksburg had really been decided back in the summer of 1865. but peoph*; did not know that they were deciding actions so well as they do now. Hut in the summer of 1864 results began to, show tbi mseltoa more plainly. Sbcr-j man was knocking things to piecesjbourg. an event that caused great rejoicing. for it a •! nigh put an end to confederate privateering. And Grant was pounding a wav ail the time at. Lee's army, and while tbe results did not show themselct at once, yet they counted big in the end. The year 1864 was the time of violent flucn a-tioas in gold and - verything else, so that values w re unstable and no man knew just where he was at.“But by January. 1865. when Ham Carver took hold of the Herald, matters had begun to settle themselves and that the end was coming and ibat soon was apparent to even the dullest. Shefman had gone through to Savannah and knocked a great hole in the very vitals of confederacy. At this very time he was rtarting oa his expedition through the Carolinas, and to a junction with (.rant borore Petersburg and Richmond »f those places did not capitulate before he got there, which they did.“At that early day, nearly thvee months before Appomattox the *nd was in sight and matters began to kettle themselves and resume their normal condition. Goid fell away, p»*?ces rapidly adjusted themselves, and »he soldiers as they were discharged from the army were at once nssimilued with the general citizenship without any friction or disturbance. Tuere was never a better business period in(Continued on page 15.)
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Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Nov 07, 1909
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