The Topeka Daily State Journal Friday February 1, 1918 Pioneer Printer Dead John C. KETCHENSON Was in Business in Leavenworth 50 Years. Leavenworth, Kan., Feb. 1,-- John C. KETCHENSON, past 80, and a pioneer printer in Kansas, died this morning at his home here. Pneumonia caused death. He was prominent in Grance Army affairs for years and was on the front line fighting all during the Civil war. KETCHENSON operated a printing office in Leavenworth for more than fifty years and for the past fifty years has printed the proceedings of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Kansas. His lodge work and Grand Army work was all his life in later years, as he had no immediate relatives, his wife dying many years ago.