Record #:

15669

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

J. W. Noell, at age 94, is the oldest man in Person County and the oldest active newspaper editor in the country. He was born in Graham in 1862, and after working as a printer's devil for a Burlington paper, he moved to Roxboro in 1890 to join his brother who had purchased the Roxboro Courier. He has remained with the paper for sixty-five years.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 23 Issue 21, Mar 1956, p14, 33

Subject(s):

Newspaper editors--Roxboro; ROXBORO COURIER (Newspaper); Noell, J.W., 1862-1961