Fred Lincoln Tipton, manager of the Girard Gazette, was born in this
village on the 2d of October, 1886, and is the son of George Lincoln
Tipton, a native of Illinois.
His preliminary education was
acquired in the public schools of Girard and after the completion of
their course, he entered Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, being
graduated with the class of 1905. Returning home he was made manager of
the Girard Gazette, then owned by his father, who founded the paper
twenty-six years previously. Mr. Tipton was only eighteen years of age
when he undertook the responsibilities connected with the publication of
this journal, being the youngest editor and proprietor of a paper in the
United States. He has maintained the policy established by his father
and is editing a clean, wholesome sheet, progressive as to ideas and
upright as to principle.
Mr. Tipton was married in Springfield,
Illinois, on the 2d of June, 1909, to Miss .Golden May Gifford, also a
native of the state, and a daughter of Amasa and Jane (Marsh) Gifford,
the father originally from New York and the mother from New Jersey.
Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic lodge, being a deacon of
the local organization and he is also affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias, and the Eastern Star. While in college he joined the Phi Delta
Theta and is a member of the Illinois Zeta chapter. He is a republican
but has always been too deeply engrossed in his business to be an
aspirant to public office. Mr. Tipton is an enterprising young man,
possessing the ability and assurance to enable him to make a success of
the work he has undertaken.
Extracted 17 Nov 2018 by Norma Hass from History of Macoupin County, Illinois: Biographical and Pictorial, by Charles A. Walker, published in 1911, Volume 2, pages 580-581.
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