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Surnames: Webster, Reynolds, King, Perkins,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are Webster, Reynolds, King, Perkins,
Roy R. WEBSTER, of Farmland, owns a highly organized and well-equipped printing
business, including the Randolph County Enterprise, of which he is editor and publisher.
Mr. Webster was born at Dupont, Indiana, April 17, 1886, son of William H. and
Mary E. (Reynolds) Webster. His mother was also born in Dupont, while his father
was a native of Greenville, Ohio, and became a farmer and stock raiser. He died in 1895
and the widowed mother resides with her son Roy. Roy R. Webster was educated in grammar
and high schools of Madison, Indiana, and also received a business college education at
Madison. While in school he carried papers and worked in a printing office to meet
expenses. After his apprenticeship as a printer he worked as a journeyman, and in 1908
made his first independent start in the printing business. This was at the Town of Kansas,
Illinois, where he bought the Kansas Journal. For that newspaper and its plant he went in
debt for !
the entire purchase price, 2,800. After paying his personal expenses for moving, office
and house rent, his capital was reduced to $15. During the next six years he put out a
good newspaper in that Illinois town, and on selling his interest there returned to
Indiana and leased the Vernon Times in Jennings County for a year and a half. From there
he came to the Randolph County Enterprise at Farmland, was employed by the proprietor for
five and a half years, and for three and a half years owned and conducted the Dunkirk
Daily News, now a weekly. On returning to Farmland he bought the Randolph County
Enterprise. In connection with the publication of a live country newspaper he has, since
the spring of 1928, operated a mail order printing business. He has one of the best
equipped printing plants found in a town of this size in the state of Indiana, and his
work has brought his business a high degree of prestige, so that it is constantly
growing. He puts out a line of adv!
ertising novelties. Mr. Webster married, in 1908, Miss Zell King, who was born in Ripley
County, Indiana, daughter of C. L. and Eva (Perkins) King, her father a native of Ripley
County, while her mother was born in Jennings County. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have two
children, Keith K., born in 1914, and Norma L., born in 1919. Mr. Webster is chairman of
the finance committee of the Christian Church, is a Republican, a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and for one term was secretary and treasurer of the Farmland Chamber of
Commerce, now serving as one of the directors.