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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           JOSEPH W. SELDEN, editor and proprietor of the Huron Times, pub-
        lised at Sand Beach, was born June 26, 1858, in Detroit, and is the
        son of JOSEPH G. and LAURA (BRISCOE) SELDEN.  The latter died in
        the City of the Straits, in August, 1864. His father is a woolen
        manufacturer of Vassar, Tuscola County.
           MR. SELDEN entered upon the initiatory for his present occupa-
        tion when he was 13 years old, becoming an employe in the office of
        the Tuscola Pioneer. He continued to operate there three years,
        going thence to Lapeer, where he secured a similar position on the
        Clarion. He was next employed on the Huron County News at Port
        Austin for a short time, and then obtained a situation in a jobbing
        office in Detroit. He also worked on the Free Press, and on the
        Post and Tribune in his native city. In 1877 he went to Lexington
        as an employe on the Sanilac Jeffersonian, coming to Sand Beach
        three years later, to establish the journalistic enterprise in
        which he is now interested. The first issue of the Times appeared
        April 8, 1880, and the paper has been popular from its inception.
        It has a circulation of 1,300, with a profitable jobbing business.
        The mechanical fixtures include a steam printing-press and a hand
        jobbing-press. The business requires the aid of three assistants.
        The enterprise has been a continuous success, and the advertising
        patronage is generous and sustaining.
           The marriage of MR. SELDEN to ELIZABETH WIXSOM occurred at
        Lexington, April 26, 1880.  She was born in Lexington, May 20,
        1859, and is the daughter of PHILIP and ELNORA WIXSOM.  Mr. and
        Mrs. SELDEN have one son, born in Sand Beach, Feb. 7, 1881.
           MR. SELDEN is a member of the Masonic fraternity and belongs to
        Huron Lodge, No. 365.  He has been a member of the Village Council
        since the place was organized.

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