HENRY J. LONG, editor and proprietor of the Kendallville Standard, is the oldest son of Michael F. and Jane C. Long, natives of Maryland. The marriage of Mr. Long's parents was solemnized at Georgetown, Penn., though their youth was spent in Lancaster County, of the same State. At an early day, they immigrated to Wayne County, Ohio, and subsequently, in 1836, removed to Auburn, De Kalb County, Ind., where they resided until their death. On the 1st of March, 1846, Henry J. Long was born in a log cabin near Auburn, De Kalb County, and here his young ws passed. Fair educational advantages were afforded him at Auburn, in the earlier part of his youth, but in March, 1860, he began his career as a printer, in the office of the Waterloo Press, where he remained working diligently until the spring of 1865, when he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry. When his term of service expired, at the close of the war, he came home, and purchased a one-half interest in the Waterloo Press, retaining the same until the spring of 1867. The following year, he entered the Standard office, at Kendallville, as foreman, and served in that capacity twelve successive years, and then purchased the entire paper, and has since been editor and proprietor. Under his management, the circulation of the Standard has been almost doubled, the circulation being largest of any in the county. Mr. Long is a practical printer, and was, during one winter, in the Public Printing Department of the Government, at Washington, D. C. He has also been in the employ of the Chicago Times. He is a genial, whole-souled gentleman, an active Republican, and has worked faithfully for the success of his party. He is a Knight Templar, and if a fifth degree member of the Odd Fellows. On the 3d of February, 1869, he was united in marriage with Miss Louise M. Rogers, of Rome City, Ind. Two children have been born to this union--Charles and Arthur. Mrs. Long is a lady of culture, and furnishes many interesting articles for the Standard.
Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, © 1882, Part 2, p. 309.
Transcribed by Denise Wells, May 2013.