Farewells: The Kingdom of Butler Volume IV

During the 58 years he labored as editor of THE EL DORADO TIMES, R. A. Clymer wrote well over a thousand tributes to citizens of the Kingdom of Butler and to a large group of colleagues, friends, and acquaintances from across the State of Kansas. The occasions for these remembrances were the passing of friends from the scenes where they had lived, worked, and contributed to society. If there was a single characteristic of the disparate group encompassed in this editorial span, it was their usefulness, their service, their positive contributions to their communities. The degree of their contributions was not important to Clymer. He did not differentiate between the great and the common, the famous and the obscure, the rich and the poor.