Biography - J. L. AVERY
J. L. Avery, editor and proprietor of the Arcola Weekly Herald since
April 1, 1893, was born four and one-half miles southeast of Arcola, in
Coles county, Illinois, November 25, 1866. The Herald was founded in the
year 1883 by H. H. Moore, who conducted it until about the year 1891, when
Willis S. Scales bought it and published it until he sold it to Mr. Avery.
The paper is in a flourishing condition, strictly Democratic in politics and
full of local news, with a circulation of about fifteen hundred.
J. L. Avery was educated in the common schools, the Arcola high school, and
took a teacher's course of two years. Afterward he taught school for seven
years in Douglas and Coles counties. In 1892 he was married to Miss Nellie
I. Fancher, of Charleston, Illinois. They have one child, Paul Kenneth.
Mr. Avery is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen. He is a
splendid news gatherer, a pungent writer and a young man of splendid
reputation.
Extracted 03 Apr 2020 by Norma Hass from the Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, published in 1900, page 273.
