NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 W. C. JARNAGIN William Claude Jarnagin, proprietor and publisher of the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune, has been continuously identified with journalistic interests during the past quarter century. His birth occurred at Colfax, Iowa, on the 14th of August, 1879, his parents being Joseph Warren and Sarah Catherine ( Aikin) Jarnagin, the former born at Monmouth, Illinois, in October, 1853, and the latter at Leighton, Iowa, in October, 1856. Joseph Warren Jarnagin published newspapers at Colfax, Oskaloosa, Montezuma and Cedar Falls. He was descended from early English colonists who settled in the south under the name of Jarningham, while his wife came of Pennsylvania Dutch lineage. Ancestors of William C. Jarnagin of this review in both the paternal and maternal lines fought in the Revolutionary war. William C. Jaarnagin completed a high school course at Montezuma, Iowa, by graduation with the class of 1896 and three years later, in 1899, was graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls with the degree of Master of Didactics. It was in 1901, soon after attaining his majority, that he followed his father's footsteps in the newspaper field, becoming proofreader on the Des Moines Daily Capital. Subsequently he was employed as reporter on the Des Moines Daily News and the Sioux City Tribune, next became associate editor of the Cedar Falls Daily Record and afterward returned to Des Moines. In the last named city he was identified successively as reporter, city editor and managing editor with the Des Moines Daily Capital, which he represented for eighteen years, serving as managing editor during the last thirteen years of that period. On the 1st of February, 1922, he purchased the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune and a year later removed to Storm Lake to begin its publication. Here he has remained to the present time and has built up a successful newspaper enterprise, the Pilot-Tribune being an interesting, newsy journal with an extensive subscription and advertising patronage. At Woodbine, Iowa, on the 3d of May, 1902, Mr. Jarnagin was united in marriage to Jean Gilchrist, a native of Harrison county, Iowa. Her parents were Scotch and her maternal grandfather was William Bogie, gardener for Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. Mrs. Jean Jarnagin is an ardent member of the P. E. O., has done much newspaper work and originated the Elizabeth Dale department of the Des Moines Capital. She is the mother of a son and a daughter, namely: Philip Gilchrist Jarnagin, who is a graduate of Drake University, where he specialized in journalism, and who is connected with the Fairall Advertising Agency at Des Moines; and Jane Catherine Jarnagin, a junior in the College of Liberal Arts of the State University of Iowa. In his political views Mr. Jarnagin is a stanch republican. He served as president of the Storm Lake Commercial Club in 1924 and also made a most commendable record as president of the Storm Lake Kiwanis Club in 1926. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, while fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, belonging to the blue lodge at Storm Lake, as well as to the consistory and to Za-Ga-Zig Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Des Moines. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias, is an associate member of Sigma Delta, Chi, a journalistic fraternity, and also belongs to Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary debating fraternity. Mr. Jarnagin has gained an extensive circle of warm friends in these various connections. He ever stands fearlessly in support of what he believes to be right and his position upon any vital question is never an equivocal one. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/