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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE I <>r YI'Y 66] auditor of Hubbard county, Minnesota, in 1883-84, and as post- master at Park Rapids, Minn., from L889 to L893. Prim- to coming to Red Wing Mr. Cobb was a Congregationalist, bu1 be now affiliates with the Red Wing Presbyterian Church. He was married January 8, 1.884, to Charlotte P. Ricker, and this anion has been blessed with four children: John Edward, born at Paris Rapids, .Minn.. November 28, 1885; Alma May, born a1 Park Rapids, .Minn.. November 26, 1887; Hazel Isabel, born at Lime Springs, Iowa. August 10, 1895; Helen Avis, horn at Park Rapids, Minn.. June 14. 1900. Mr. Cobb has a fluent pen and possesses that appreciation of news value which is so essential in a news- paperman. His past career in the journalistic Meld has been a successful one. and his friends predict that he has a still broader field ahead of him. George W. Cobb, father of H. R. Cobb, was born in Maine in 1815, descended from one of the oldest English colonial families of that stale. He was the largest Lumber dealer in Portland. .Maine, during the Civil war. came west in 1872 and died in .Minneapolis. Minn., in 1909. The mother was of Scotch- Irish ancestry, her forebears having settled in Maine in the seven- teenth century. She was born in Yarmouth. .Maine, in 1819, and died in Minneapolis, .Minn., in 1889. The National Editorial Association, which has become a most influential organization, with members all over the United States. owes its origin to B. B. Herbert, while editor of the "Republican." He became the first president of this organization, has been on its executive committee ever since, and has for many years pub- lished the official organ of the association, the "National Printer- Journalist." of ( hicago. on August 22. 1907, the National Edi- torial Association visited Red AVing and dedicated the new home of the " Republican." 4:r>-437 Third street, then in process of con- struction. Mr. Herbert delivered the dedicatory address on "Red Wing, the Cradle of the National Editorial Association," in the presence of several hundred fellow editors and a multitude of other visitors and citizens who were at the same time celebrat- ing "Home-coming Week." In his address Air. Herbert said: "In 1884 the great Industrial and Cotton Exposition at New Orleans had been undertaken and advertised, and 1 concluded that the time had come for getting together the newspaper men. who are always foremost in everything designed for industrial promotion, to organize the proposed national body. Propitious was the time, the place and the occasion. Accordingly, 1 recom- mended the organization in an address, as president, before the Minnesota Editorial Association in the Mahtomedi assembly, on White Bear lake. St. Paul, July 30, 1884. The plan was adopted by resolution at an adjourned session, in the Chequamegon hotel, Ashland. Wis. I was chosen chairman of the committ< n or-