J. C. Humphrey

James Cobin Humphrey (2 September 1845 – May 1910) was a Canadian-American publisher who was the founder of the Belleville Telescope, a newspaper in Republic County, Kansas. It was the first paper in the county, established September 20, 1870, when there were only two houses in the town of Belleville.^[1][2]

Humphrey was born in Milton, Ontario, Canada in 1845 and moved first to Ohio, then back to Canada, and finally arriving in Kansas to homestead in 1870.^[3]