Biographical Sketch of J. W. Vincent, Camden County, Missouri
>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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J. W. Vincent, editor of the "Reveille", at Linn Creek, was born in
Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1859, and is the son of Joshua S. and Susan
(Williams) Vincent, the former a native of New York and the latter of
the Emerald Isle. The father has had quite a notable career. He was
a printer by trade, entering his apprenticeship at the age of fourteen
years, and was at work on the New York Tribune, under Horace Greeley,
at the time of the Mexican War. He abandoned his business and enlist-
ed in Company I, First Regiment, sailed around Cape Horn, and in 1848
landed in California, where he served two years and a half, being dis-
charged at San Diego. He was wounded twice in a skirmish with the
Indians; was a sergeant, and after being discharged remained about
seven years in California, being engaged in mining. He bought the
Clear Lake property, near San Francisco, which is now quite extensive
property. There he ran a public inn or resort, which he carried on for
three years. This property was purchased under a Mexican Government
grant, and he was in litigation over this for some years, as there was
an opposition grant, which was a forgery, being afterwards proven as
such. An assassin was hired to put him out of the way, and a load of
buckshot was fired into his neck one morning while he was sitting in
his hotel, seriously wounding him. However, he recovered, sold out in
1856, and returned to New York State, where he worked on several of the
leading papers in the cities of that State, also being foreman of the
Milwaukee Sentinel for some time. He was sent south as a correspondent
of this paper, finally locating in Mississippi, and at the time of the
breaking out of the war was at work on the Jackson Mississippian, and
set up the Mississippi ordinance of secession when first issued. In
1861 he left and went to Wisconsini, and from there to Jackson county,
Ill., where he founded the New Era at Carbondale, which he ran for
about three years. In 1868 he came to Linn Creek and founded the
Reveille, which publication he continued until 1880, when his son,
J. W., purchased the office, and has since continued the publication.
The father was married in Milwaukee, Wis., and has but two children:
Joshua W. and Henry M. The father is a resident of Linn Creek. J. W.
Vincent was about nine years of age when he came to Linn Creek with his
parents. Here he completed his growth, received a common school educa-
tion, and learned the printer's trade of his father. In 1880 he
purchased the paper of his father, as before stated, and this sheet is
edited in the interests of the Republican party, and is a spicy
journal. Mr. Vincent was married first, in 1880, to Miss Mary E.
Shoop, who bore him one child, Mary Ida, and died in 1883. In Septem-
ber, 1884, Mr. Vincent chose for his second wife Miss Elizabeth M.
Foster, by whom he had three children, one now living, Mabel. Mr.
Vincent is a Past Master Mason, and was Master of the late Grange
lodge.
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