Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1915 — Logansport Publisher Succumbs to Long Illness. [ARTICLE]

Logansport Publisher Succumbs to Long Illness.

B. F. Louthain, president of the Pharos-Reporter Publishing Company at Logansport, died at 1:20 o’clock Monday morning. Death was due to a complication of disease, heart trouble and brights disease being the principal causes. He had been in failing health for the last two years, and was confined to his bed during the past two months. Mr. Louthain, who was 68 years of age, was born and reared in Cass county, and had been connected with newspaper work in Logansport since 1877. He was recognized over the state as a journalist of more than average ability and influence. Before entering the newspaper field he was a school teacher.