The original of this photo is in the Genealogy Room of the Chanute Public Library. Beneath the photograph is the following caption: "John S. Gilmore, b. 12-6-1848 d. 4-2-13 Established "Wilson Co. Citizen" 4/21/1870 The Chanute Daily Tribune, Thursday, April 3, 1913, Pg. 1 EDITOR JOHN GILMORE DEAD ______ END CAME TO HIM AT 12:30 O’CLOCK THIS MORNING ______ OLDEST NEWSPAPER MAN IN KANSAS ______ A PUBLISHER IN FREDONIA FOR FORTY YEARS. ______ He Began Learning the Printer’s Trade in 1865 In Emporia—A Member of Neodesha’s First Council—An Authority on Kansas History. ______ Fredonia, April 3—John S. Gilmore, Kansas historian and veteran editor of the Wilson County Citizen, died at his home in Fredonia this morning at 12:30 o’clock. Death came early today as the result of a long period of illness which began early in the winter. However, Mr. Gilmore had grown better and since the pleasant weather began had taken daily rides on his motor car. The direct cause of the death was a slight stroke of apoplexy yesterday afternoon. He was down town in his car with his wife and brother-in-law, Dr. T. Blakesley of Neodesha. He stepped from the car for a few minutes to speak to some old friends he had not seen in years. The funeral services will be held at the family home here at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Mr. Gilmore had been ailing for several years. He was taken quite sick the 11th of last December. Death was caused by a hemorrhage of the brain and partial paralysis. Too Weak to Survive. When the blow came he failed quickly. Although ordinarly, the physician said, the attack would not have been considered a serious one, coming as it did in addition to the weakness from several months of illness, it proved to be too baffling a complication. Mr. Gilmore leaves a widow and two children. The son, John Jr., 22 years of age, came home from college last fall when his father was taken sick and has since been editing the paper. The daughter Mary, is several years younger. A Pioneer Newspaper Man. Mr. Gilmore was the Nesior (sic) of newspaperdom in this part of the state. He entered the office of Jacob Stotler’s Emporia News in the summer of 1865, when he was 16 years old, as a printers’ apprentice, and afterward worked on the Burlington Patriot under S. S. Prouty, the Oswego Register, the Leavenworth Early Commercial, the Osage Chronical under M. M. Murdock and the Emporia Tribune. Having before his 21st birthday through work as a typesetter and the investment of his wages in cattle, saved more than $300, he felt an ambition to start a paper. Riding from Emporia to Wilson county on a Kaw Indian pony in December of 1869, he completed negotiations for such an undertaking. Started Paper in 1870. He located at Guilford, where, a few months later, the press and other paraphernalia of the office—which he had selected personally—were shipped the last week in March. The press was a Washington hand-press on which he had “rolled” as an apprentice in the office of the Emporia News and was taken to that town in 1857 by P. P. Plumb when he started the News. The first number of the Wilson County Citizen was issued at Guilford April 21, 1870, with John S. Gilmore as editor and proprietor. The young editor in his salutatory announced, as expressive of political convictions, that the Citizen was a Republican paper. After publishing it for six months and becoming convinced that Guilford had but slight prospects as a town, the paper was moved to Neodesha and the publication resumed as the Neodesha Citizen, the first number being issued, Nov. 18, 1870. In Fredonia Forty Years. Two years later the paper was suspended, and in May of 1873, Mr. Gilmore, wishing to locate at the county seal, purchased of William A. Peffer the Fredonia Journal printing outfit, stopped the Journal and revived his former paper as the Wilson County Citizen, the initial issue appearing June 6. From the beginning the Citizen has never changed hands or politics. Mr. Gilmore was its sole owner and absolutely controlled and directed its course from the first. Through all political storms and mutations, the policy of the paper was uniform, and the editor never purposely or unwittingly temported in any degree or at any time or period with any of the numerous political parties and movements which formed and fittled since he began. In Kansas Since 1857. Mr. Gilmore was 64 years old. He was born in Rochester, N. Y., December 6, 1848. He came with his parents to Kansas Territory in 1857. October 31 of that year the family landed at Wyandotte from a Missouri river steamboat and set out on their journey of 110 miles in an ox wagon to the claim the father had taken the preceding March. Their frontier cabin was in the woods along the Neosho river two miles northwest of Emporia, then a new town. On Neodesha’s First Council. Mr. Gilmore took an active part in public affairs. When Neodesha was incorporated as a city of th

Citation from ceremony: Janet Darbyshire trained at the University of Manchester Medical School, and then, for her postgraduate work, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. When, in May 2010, she stepped down as Director of the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, she was able to look back on a career that has been truly stellar in the development, differentiation, and refinement of clinical trials. She once reflected that she did miss hands-on medicine, but then she also reflected that the contribution from clinical trials to the practice and efficacy of hands-on medicine can be, and has been, immense. In 1974 she was responsible for a programme of clinical trails exploring tuberculosis treatments in Africa. In 1994 she developed the MRC programme of clinical trials with respect to HIV infection. More recently, the Development of AntiRetroviral Treatment Trial (known as DART), which was conducted in Uganda and Zimbabwe, became the largest randomized trial of HIV treatment conducted in Africa. As well as providing important answers to questions of the very highest concern in public policy in Africa, the programme has helped to build research capacity in the sites where the trials were conducted. To initiate and bring to fruition such trials presupposes a prodigious range of gifts and human qualities. Dr Darbyshire possesses them all – high intelligence, a clear sense of research priorities, and an ability to create and maintain good working relationships with all manner of international collaborators. How has she been so gloriously successful? Well, her answer is characteristically low-key. ‘Serendipity’, she once said, ‘has played a large part in my career.’ Well, no doubt there is an element of truth in that; but it is only part of the truth. The other part has to do with her stellar distinction as the begetter of clinical trials. She was awarded the CBE in 2010; and somehow one senses that that was for more than being in the right place at the right time, for more than serendipity. Sir John, I present to you the Moving Spirit behind so many major clinical trials, Professor Janet Darbyshire.