My Genealogy Hound

THE CAMPBELL PRESS is a six-column folio and was established in January, 1876, by Frank W. Barber. Its present editor, U. G. Knight, was born in Constantine, Mich., in 1864, and in the spring of 1871 was brought to Nebraska by his parents, who settled in Webster county, and still reside there. George W. Knight, father of U. G. Knight, was born in Canada, but came to the States several years before the breaking out of the rebellion. At the first call for volunteers he enlisted in the First Minnesota infantry and served out his full term of three months. Immediately after being mustered out he re-enlisted, joining the Third Minnesota infantry, and served through the war and Indian campaign of 1864, and until the close of the war, when he was mustered out as captain. Broken down in health, he located with his family in Michigan, in which State he resided until coming to Nebraska, where his health has materially improved. In 1873 he was appointed postmaster at Inavale, and still retains the office.

U. G. Knight remained with his parents until twenty years of age, working on the farm and attending school. At the age mentioned he went to Colorado, where he spent some months teaching school and working in the grain business, but in the early winter he returned to his home, taught school a few terms, and in the spring of 1885 went to Los Angeles, Cal., and there entered upon his first newspaper work, becoming city editor of the Laborers’ Advocate and Shipping Gazette, but, on account of a difference in politics, soon fell out with the manager, the famous Captain Jayne, and took his departure for San Francisco, where he became a reporter on the Daily Call. In a short time, however, he quit the Call and went into the interior of the state, where he remained until August, 1887, and then came back to Nebraska and taught school one term. In the spring of 1889 he went to Hebron and was employed in the composing room of the Journal, and, in fact, there learned the mechanical part of the business. Three months later he went to Red Cloud, where he was employed until April, 1890, as foreman of the Democrat. The next move was to take editorial charge of the Campbell Press, which journal he has placed on a sound financial basis, making of it a good, lively, and able newspaper. He is a republican in politics and an active worker in the party, and has already gained considerable prominence in the state and surrounding counties, he is a hustler and will make his mark in the political arena before many years.