Harry Truman Klinestiver, editor and co-publisher of the Forest Republican at Tionesta, died today at the age of 76.
He had been ill with a heart ailment for about two weeks in Oil City hospital.
Harry was widely known in civic and political circles in northwestern Pennsylvania.
A native of Forest County, he worked as a youth in the sawmills during the lumber boom and at the age of fifteen went to Tionesta where he began learning the printing trade from his uncle Jacob Wenk, owner of the Republican.
Later, he worked on the Tidioute News and the Warren Mirror. Thirty years ago, after his death. Harry joined in partnership with his cousin, Benjamin Wenk, to publish the weekly newspaper.
Harry was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a member of the Lions Club and International Typographical Union.
Surviving is two sisters, Florence of Washington, and Emma A. of Sheffield, and two brothers, George of Warren, and Fred of Tionesta.
He had been ill with a heart ailment for about two weeks in Oil City hospital.
Harry was widely known in civic and political circles in northwestern Pennsylvania.
A native of Forest County, he worked as a youth in the sawmills during the lumber boom and at the age of fifteen went to Tionesta where he began learning the printing trade from his uncle Jacob Wenk, owner of the Republican.
Later, he worked on the Tidioute News and the Warren Mirror. Thirty years ago, after his death. Harry joined in partnership with his cousin, Benjamin Wenk, to publish the weekly newspaper.
Harry was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a member of the Lions Club and International Typographical Union.
Surviving is two sisters, Florence of Washington, and Emma A. of Sheffield, and two brothers, George of Warren, and Fred of Tionesta.
Harry Truman Klinestiver, editor and co-publisher of the Forest Republican at Tionesta, died today at the age of 76.
He had been ill with a heart ailment for about two weeks in Oil City hospital.
Harry was widely known in civic and political circles in northwestern Pennsylvania.
A native of Forest County, he worked as a youth in the sawmills during the lumber boom and at the age of fifteen went to Tionesta where he began learning the printing trade from his uncle Jacob Wenk, owner of the Republican.
Later, he worked on the Tidioute News and the Warren Mirror. Thirty years ago, after his death. Harry joined in partnership with his cousin, Benjamin Wenk, to publish the weekly newspaper.
Harry was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a member of the Lions Club and International Typographical Union.
Surviving is two sisters, Florence of Washington, and Emma A. of Sheffield, and two brothers, George of Warren, and Fred of Tionesta.
He had been ill with a heart ailment for about two weeks in Oil City hospital.
Harry was widely known in civic and political circles in northwestern Pennsylvania.
A native of Forest County, he worked as a youth in the sawmills during the lumber boom and at the age of fifteen went to Tionesta where he began learning the printing trade from his uncle Jacob Wenk, owner of the Republican.
Later, he worked on the Tidioute News and the Warren Mirror. Thirty years ago, after his death. Harry joined in partnership with his cousin, Benjamin Wenk, to publish the weekly newspaper.
Harry was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a member of the Lions Club and International Typographical Union.
Surviving is two sisters, Florence of Washington, and Emma A. of Sheffield, and two brothers, George of Warren, and Fred of Tionesta.
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