A. D. TINSLEY
A. D. Tinsley, editor of the Harlan Tribune (established in 1879), was born in Wapello county, Ia., in 1854; removed to Harlan in 1875, engaged in joiner work with Riley Cass, and taught school during the winter of 1875-6. In 1877 was assistant county treasurer under Thomas McDonald; in the fall of the same year, engaged in business with his brother Prior Tinsley, and in 1879, still retaining his interest in the store, he opened the Tribune office. He has since been chairman of the county democratic central committee. He has always been an active participant in the campaigns, and is recognized as one of the party leaders in the county. The Tribune has been a county official paper since its establishment, and a city official paper for some time; office on north side of the square. Nov. lOtn, 1881, Mr. Tinsley was married to Cicily Chatburn, daughter of the Hon. J. W. Chatburn of Harlan.
Transcribed February, 2018 by Cheryl Siebrass from: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, published in Sioux City, IA.: Western Publishing Company, 1882, pg. 426.
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