Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

JOHN B. GAINES, editor and proprietor of the Park City Daily Times and
Weekly Times-Gazette, was born in Warren County, Ky., September 30, 1854,
and is a son of Samuel B. and Bettie (Ritter) Gaines, and is of English
extraction.  Samuel B. Gaines was a Virginian, born in 1829; his wife was
born at Glasgow, KY., in 1837.  Samuel B. Gaines came to Kentucky in early
life; he was a general merchant and sold goods in Allen, Barren and Warren
Counties.  Gainesville, in Allen County, was named in honor of him.  He
was a leading and popular merchant and influential citizen; his death took
place in Barren County in 1856.  John B. Gaines was reared on a farm in
his native county, where he remained until eighteen years of age and was
educated in the common schools.  In 1871 he went to Hannibal, Mo., where
he engaged for two years in the railroad business, and for several months
held the responsible position of general passenger and ticket agent of the
Mississippi Valley & Western Railroad - he was the youngest man who ever
held such a position on any line of railroad.  In 1873 he went to St.
Louis and was engaged in the newspaper business, his first position being
on the Illuistrated Railway and St. Louis News and afterward as reporter
on the Globe.  He has owned and operated a number of newspapers throughout
his native State, and is regarded as one of the most enterprising and
successful newspaper publishers in the State.  In 1882 he established the
Park City Daily Times against the advice of all his friends, who thought a
daily paper could not be made to pay in Bowling Green, but the result of
the venture proves conclusively his foresight in inaugurating the
enterprise.  His office and contents were destroyed by fire January 29,
1885, and then Mr. Gaines consolidated his paper with the Gazette.  May
15, 1885, he became the sole proprietor and editor of the Park City Daily
Times and Weekly Times-Gazette, having bought the interest of his partner,
E. H. Porter, who was appointed postmaster at Bowling Green.  The Times,
under the able supervision of Mr. Gaines, is an enterprising and fearless
publication, and adds materially to the enterprise and thrift of the Park
City.  Mr. Gaines is an ardent Democrat, and advocates every interest of
that party.  He married, in 1878, Winnie McCutchen, of Simpson County,
whom whom he has had three children.  Mr. Gaines, in addition to being the
editor and proprietor of the leading newspaper of southern Kentucky, is
alive to the interest of all laudable enterprises, and is the president of
the Park City Building & Loan Association, and a prominent member of the
Bowling Green and Warren County Immigration Society, both of which
enterprises he was largely instrumental in bringing about.

Gaines Ritter Porter McCutchen
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Glasgow-Barren-KY VA Allen-KY St._Louis-St._Lewis-MO Simpson-KY

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