JOHN POMEROY

JOHN POMEROY, editor and proprietor of the Shelby News, Shelby, Iowa, was born in the town of Concord, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1853. He resided (with the exception of six years spent away from home in attending school and teaching) in the place of his birth until 1878, when he came to Shelby, Shelby County, Iowa. He spent two years as a student at Tuscarora Academy, Academia, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, and three years at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in the summer of 1876, with the degree of A. B. After his graduation he had charge of the Concord, Pennsylvania, High School, from October, 1877, to March, 1878. Previous to this time, however, he had engaged in the profession of teaching. He had taught in Louisa County, Iowa, from September, 1872, until July , 1873, during a part of which time he had charge of the grammar department of the Morning Sun public schools for one term. In the spring of 1880 Mr. Pomeroy purchased of Ll. L. Heath, the Shelby News, and since that date has been editor and proprietor of the paper. The News was founded by Mr. Heath in 1877, and is Republican in its principles. Mr. Pomeroy is unmarried.

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pg. 502. Transcribed and submitted by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs