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Collection: FND005 - SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 00034
Title: Clement Lounsberry
Date: 1934
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Summary: Colonel Clement A. Lounsberry (1843-1926) was a Civil War Veteran. After his service, he moved to Fairmont, Minn., and started the Martin County Atlas in 1868. Shortly after, he moved to Wells, Minn., taking his Martin County Atlas business with him. He leased his paper in 1872 and founded the Bismarck Tribune in 1873. He also started reporting on the North Dakota Legislature for the St. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, and Grand Forks dailies, and for the Bismarck Tribune. He served as president of the North Dakota Press Association in 1894. In 1895, he established the Record at Fargo, a monthly he created to gather material for a history of the state. The publication of this magazine stopped in 1905 when Colonel Lounsberry moved to Washington, where he lived until his death in 1926. Orphaned as a youth, Lounsberry began with little in life, but gained much success, first as a military officer during the Civil War and then as a frontier journalist. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lounsberry, a farm laborer in Michigan, enlisted as a private in Company I, First Michigan Volunteers. Wounded and taken prisoner July 21, 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, he spent a year in Confederate hands. Exchanged in June 1862, he received an officer's commission and moved up the promotion ladder quickly. His newspaper career began after the war, and was best known for sending a reporter, Mark Kellogg to accompany Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 268 men of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in their battles with Plains Indians. All of them, including Kellogg, perished at the Little Bighorn. Late in the evening of July 5, 1876, the Missouri River steamer Far West pulled up to the dock at Bismarck, and soon news of the Battle at the Little Bighorn began spreading. Lounsberry worked tirelessly throughout the night to produce a special edition of his newspaper, the Bismarck Tribune, published the next day, July 6, 1876, that carried the first full account of what would become known as one of this country's most famous battles. In addition, he telegraphed the news to the New York Herald and other Eastern newspapers. After Lounsberry moved to Washington, D.C., in 1905 to work in the General Land Office, he never again called North Dakota home. He died on Oct. 2., 1926, in Washington and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Red ID: FND_I_77474 Image ID: 509293 Image Notes: 10950 00005 00034

Collection: FND005 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
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