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T. EDWARD HARWOOD, publisher and proprietor of the daily and weekly Gazette, at Springfield, established this paper in 1872, and confined himself to the weekly issue until 1878. He then began running the daily, which has the largest circulation of any paper in the city of Springfield. It is independent in politics and is devoted to the local new r s of Clark County in addition to giving a resume of the important happenings all over the world.

Mr. Harwood was born in the city of Cincinnati May 26, 1848, and is a son of Francis Lee Harwood, who died in Newark, Ohio, in 1863, having removed to that place from Cincinnati several years previously. The mother, Mrs. Mary (Coffman) Harwood, is now a resident of Champaign County. The parental family included six children. T. Edward attended a district school near Newark, and at the age of thirteen years entered the office of the Newark Advocate, where he served a regular apprenticeship of four years and six months at the “art preservative,” acquiring a thorough knowledge of all branches of the business. Subsequently he traveled as a journeyman through several States, sojourning a brief time in the principal cities and in March, 1865, landed in Springfield.

In due time Mr. Harwood purchased a small office and established the Weekly Gazette, which he soon placed upon a sound footing. He has been uniformly prosperous, having good business capacities, exercising good judgment in the conduct of his paper. In 1868 he was joined in wedlock with Miss Anna M. Hartstone, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to America with her parents when a child. The latter were Frederick and Lettice (Manton) Hartstone, who were of English birth and ancestry. Of this union there have been born nine children, seven sons and two daughters, namely: Francis C., who is city editor of his father’s paper; Jessie M., at home, Frederick H., Lee E., Charles A., Ralph C., Kenneth S. and Leonard A.

In politics Mr. Harwood is a pronounced Republican. He is a member of the Ohio Associated Dailies, also of the National Editorial Association, of which he served as a delegate to the convention which met at Detroit, Mich., in 1889, and he is a member of Ephraim Lodge No. 146, 1. O. O. F. He occupies a neat home in the southern part of the city and enjoys the friendship and companionship of its best people.