This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... meet and discharge this burden of responsibility, high ideals must be maintained, requiring ofttimes the utmost of moral courage and the frequent sacrifice of personal aggrandizement, to the end that the public good may be just and adequately served. This is the office of the true journalist. Any history of Greene county would be grievously incomplete without due credit to William, M. Moss, who stands today as the pioneer newspaper man of Greene county, and whose long, arduous and unbroken service forms an enduring monument to his rugged honesty, boundless energy and public servitude. No brief sketch can do justice to the record he has made as a newspaper man, for that record is an open book and no chaplet of words that the biographer can weave can add to or detract from the estimate of the man of those who know him. It is the historian's duty to here record in language unbeguiled the life and labor of Honorable William Marshall Moss, editor and publisher of the Linton Daily Call, the oldest newspaper man in the point of service in southern Indiana. Born in a little log cabin four miles northwest of the city of Linton, March 22, 1852. William M. Moss is a product of the county to which he has given lavishly of his talent and labor. He is the oldest child born to Daniel H. and Mary (Mayfield) Moss, also native born. His grandfather. Reverend Aquilla Moss, a Baptist minister of repute, was one of the earliest settlers of western Green county. Mr. Moss attended the district schools and had the additional advantage of an academic education at Ascension Seminary (now defunct), Sullivan, Indiana, from which institution he graduated in 1872. Among his classmates were Congressman John C. Chaney, of Sullivan; the late Samuel R. Hamil, of Terre...