Draft:John Dalphin Howard

John Dalphin Howard (May 23, 1869-1920) was a newspaper publisher, editor, and writer in the United States. He was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky to John and Delia Belle Board Howard.

Career

He graduated from Scribner High School in New Albany, Indiana.^[1] He worked for the Indianapolis Freeman selling ada and became its advertising manager. He also controbuted stories to the paper.

He edited and published the National Domestic Magazine from 1896-1898. In 1912 he founded the Indianapolis Ledger and published it into the 1920s. He also wrote a crime adventure serial for the Indianapolis Freeman newspaper. He married Anna Marie Everett from Mount Sterling, Kentucky.

He helped found the Negro National League.

He lived at 405 Muskingum Street. He was documented in Who's Who of the Colored Race (1915) by Frank Lincoln Mather^[1]

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/700

He married Anna Marie Everett of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky in Milwaukee on June 7, 1909.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent. 1915.

[who-1] Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent. 1915.

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