Bio: Ring, L. B. (History)

Contact: Janet Schwarze

Surnames: RING LANGFORD

----Source: 1891 History of Clark and Jackson Co., Wisconsin


L. B. RING, is editor and two-thirds owner of the Neillsville Times, an ably and successfully conducted sheet published by the Times Publishing Company. He is a native of Rock County, Wisconsin, and for many years resided with his parents at Sparta, Wisconsin. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Sparta Eagle, and engaged in the business until May 1875, when he received a Government appointment at Shanghai, China. In making the journey to the scenes of his future work, he crossed the continent to the Pacific coast, and sailed from the port of San Francisco to the Flowery Kingdom by way of Japan. He remained in the Orient until 1877, when he returned to the United States he came by way of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, France, England and the Atlantic, thus making a complete circuit of the globe. It was an exceedingly interesting and valuable experience, in which he won much information. He touched nearly all the principal seaports en route, and lingered many months at places of interest which he visited.

On his return to this country Mr. Ring was employed for some time on the La Crosse Republican and Leader the winter of 1878 - 79 was passed in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as a witness in the Seward investigation. In March, 1879, after an extensive journey through the South, he came to Neillsville, and in July of the same year he established the True Republican, which he owned and edited until December, 1888 at that time this paper and the Times consolidated, Mr. Ring retiring. After the consolidation it was known as The Neillsville Times, and in March, 1889, Mr. Ring bought an interest in the business, and has ever since been the editor.
The Times is a Republican publication, and adheres staunchly to the principles of the party.

Our esteemed subject was married to Miss Frances Langford, of Madison, Wisconsin, an accomplished teacher, in 1886.

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History: Ring & Youman's Wisconsin Land, Emigration and Colonization Company.

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