M. T. MATTHEWS, local editor of the Kendallville Standard, is a native of Morgan County, Va. His parents, Rev. L. W. Matthews, a divine of the U. B. Church, and Mary A. (Michael) Matthews, became residents of Wabash County, Ind., in 1860, where they have since resided. Our subject received fine educational advantages, having taken an academic course at the South Wabash Academy, and subsequently a collegiate course at Fort Wayne. He began the journalistic profession in August, 1881, by becoming the local editor of the Standard, and possesses the necessary attributes to make a successful career in his chosen field.
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.