Edwin Wright Tatman, although a comparatively young man, has nevertheless been classed for a number of years among the city's forward rank of business spirits. He is president and general manager of the Times-News Company. His public activities in the Commercial Club, which he served as vice-president and treasurer, his identity with all public-spirited and philanthropic movements, and his labors in behalf of the industrial development of Connersville are predominate characteristics. Cementing all this he has a wide acquaintance and a salient penchant for being on the advance side of issues, questions and movements.
Mr. Tatman was born in Connersville in a house that occupies the same original lot on which his own house now stands, on July 21, 1878. His business career is a rather remarkable one. His connection with the Evening News, of which he is now the publisher and principal owner, began in his tenth year and has lasted, without interruption, until the present. He began as a newsboy and continued to be a newsboy until the day of his graduation from the Connersville high school. He was then in his eighteenth year. The Monday following he took up his duties as bookkeeper for the company. About a year later the company, theretofore in charge of William F. Downs and J. W. Hull, underwent a change, Mr. Tatman's father acquiring a half interest in the establishment. At the time of this transaction young Mr. Tatman was made business manager. He was peculiarly fitted for that position, having grown up from the humblest duties of the establishment to the position — which he still holds — of the person who knows more about the business, in and out, than any other person connected with it. The years since he began as a newsboy have given him a business education not to be found in any college.
While on the surface of Connersville's affairs, Mr. Tatman and the Times-News are all but synonyms, the president and general manager is active otherwise, being interested in local banking and manufacturing enterprises and having valuable realty holdings. He is a member of the board of directors of the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company, of Connersville.
- History of Fayette County, Indiana: her people, industries and institutions, 1917, B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, page 480.
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Edwin W. Tatman, forty-two years old, printer and publisher, of Connersville, Ind., died at his home in Connersville, November 3. He was ill for only a day. He was a member of the Masonic and Elks Lodges, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Fayette Bank and Trust Company.
- American Printer and Lithographer, Volume 71, page 63
Mr. Tatman was born in Connersville in a house that occupies the same original lot on which his own house now stands, on July 21, 1878. His business career is a rather remarkable one. His connection with the Evening News, of which he is now the publisher and principal owner, began in his tenth year and has lasted, without interruption, until the present. He began as a newsboy and continued to be a newsboy until the day of his graduation from the Connersville high school. He was then in his eighteenth year. The Monday following he took up his duties as bookkeeper for the company. About a year later the company, theretofore in charge of William F. Downs and J. W. Hull, underwent a change, Mr. Tatman's father acquiring a half interest in the establishment. At the time of this transaction young Mr. Tatman was made business manager. He was peculiarly fitted for that position, having grown up from the humblest duties of the establishment to the position — which he still holds — of the person who knows more about the business, in and out, than any other person connected with it. The years since he began as a newsboy have given him a business education not to be found in any college.
While on the surface of Connersville's affairs, Mr. Tatman and the Times-News are all but synonyms, the president and general manager is active otherwise, being interested in local banking and manufacturing enterprises and having valuable realty holdings. He is a member of the board of directors of the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company, of Connersville.
- History of Fayette County, Indiana: her people, industries and institutions, 1917, B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, page 480.
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Edwin W. Tatman, forty-two years old, printer and publisher, of Connersville, Ind., died at his home in Connersville, November 3. He was ill for only a day. He was a member of the Masonic and Elks Lodges, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Fayette Bank and Trust Company.
- American Printer and Lithographer, Volume 71, page 63
Edwin Wright Tatman, although a comparatively young man, has nevertheless been classed for a number of years among the city's forward rank of business spirits. He is president and general manager of the Times-News Company. His public activities in the Commercial Club, which he served as vice-president and treasurer, his identity with all public-spirited and philanthropic movements, and his labors in behalf of the industrial development of Connersville are predominate characteristics. Cementing all this he has a wide acquaintance and a salient penchant for being on the advance side of issues, questions and movements.
Mr. Tatman was born in Connersville in a house that occupies the same original lot on which his own house now stands, on July 21, 1878. His business career is a rather remarkable one. His connection with the Evening News, of which he is now the publisher and principal owner, began in his tenth year and has lasted, without interruption, until the present. He began as a newsboy and continued to be a newsboy until the day of his graduation from the Connersville high school. He was then in his eighteenth year. The Monday following he took up his duties as bookkeeper for the company. About a year later the company, theretofore in charge of William F. Downs and J. W. Hull, underwent a change, Mr. Tatman's father acquiring a half interest in the establishment. At the time of this transaction young Mr. Tatman was made business manager. He was peculiarly fitted for that position, having grown up from the humblest duties of the establishment to the position — which he still holds — of the person who knows more about the business, in and out, than any other person connected with it. The years since he began as a newsboy have given him a business education not to be found in any college.
While on the surface of Connersville's affairs, Mr. Tatman and the Times-News are all but synonyms, the president and general manager is active otherwise, being interested in local banking and manufacturing enterprises and having valuable realty holdings. He is a member of the board of directors of the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company, of Connersville.
- History of Fayette County, Indiana: her people, industries and institutions, 1917, B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, page 480.
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Edwin W. Tatman, forty-two years old, printer and publisher, of Connersville, Ind., died at his home in Connersville, November 3. He was ill for only a day. He was a member of the Masonic and Elks Lodges, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Fayette Bank and Trust Company.
- American Printer and Lithographer, Volume 71, page 63
Mr. Tatman was born in Connersville in a house that occupies the same original lot on which his own house now stands, on July 21, 1878. His business career is a rather remarkable one. His connection with the Evening News, of which he is now the publisher and principal owner, began in his tenth year and has lasted, without interruption, until the present. He began as a newsboy and continued to be a newsboy until the day of his graduation from the Connersville high school. He was then in his eighteenth year. The Monday following he took up his duties as bookkeeper for the company. About a year later the company, theretofore in charge of William F. Downs and J. W. Hull, underwent a change, Mr. Tatman's father acquiring a half interest in the establishment. At the time of this transaction young Mr. Tatman was made business manager. He was peculiarly fitted for that position, having grown up from the humblest duties of the establishment to the position — which he still holds — of the person who knows more about the business, in and out, than any other person connected with it. The years since he began as a newsboy have given him a business education not to be found in any college.
While on the surface of Connersville's affairs, Mr. Tatman and the Times-News are all but synonyms, the president and general manager is active otherwise, being interested in local banking and manufacturing enterprises and having valuable realty holdings. He is a member of the board of directors of the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company, of Connersville.
- History of Fayette County, Indiana: her people, industries and institutions, 1917, B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, page 480.
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Edwin W. Tatman, forty-two years old, printer and publisher, of Connersville, Ind., died at his home in Connersville, November 3. He was ill for only a day. He was a member of the Masonic and Elks Lodges, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Fayette Bank and Trust Company.
- American Printer and Lithographer, Volume 71, page 63
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Buried in the same lot are: George S., George Jr., Cornelia, Elizabeth, Edwin and James Tatman.
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