My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE McCLELLAN BROWN, editor of the Alma Tribune, is a native of Panora, Iowa, was born June 25, 1864, was reared in his native place, and received an ordinary common-school training and entered upon the active duties of life as a teacher at the age of eighteen. In 1855 he was deputy postmaster under his father, Daniel Brown, at Panora, and in 1887, in partnership with his father, he leased the Guthrie Vidette at Panora, Iowa, and began his newspaper career. In March, 1889, he came to Nebraska and the following month bought the Alma Tribune, of Alma, Harlan county; in August, 1889, he sold a half-interest in the paper to J. H. Moore, the firm becoming Brown & Moore, but subsequently bought back Mr. Moore’s interest. Mr. Brown is a practical newspaper man, familiar with all the ins and outs of the business, a good scholar, ready writer and fluent conversationalist. He possesses good taste and discriminating judgment, and realizes the responsibilities as well as the possibilities of his calling, and he uses the power of his position with discretion and sound intelligence. Mr. Brown has a family, having married in his native place and the lady whom he selected for his life’s companion being one whose tastes are in harmony with his own and who is admirably fitted to bear him the companionship he sought with her hand. Mr. Brown also has with him as members of his household his aged father and mother, each now past their three score and ten, to whom he is devotedly attached and whose declining years he is watching over with the tender care and solicitude of an affectionate son.

Mr. Brown is giving to the people of Alma and Harlan county a paper worthy of their patronage and earnest assistance, and it is gratifying to learn that the Tribune is meeting with the encouragement it deserves. It is the official organ of Harlan county, has a large and constantly increasing circulation; it has built up a job department which receives a liberal patronage and turns out work of superior quality.