1884—Thomas ("Pop") Gardner, manager; Mrs. C. A. Coburn, editor; H. M. Clinton, city editor.
1885—H. M. Clinton, manager; Mrs. C. A. Coburn, editor.
1886—D. H. Stearns, manager; Mrs. C. A. Coburn, editor.
1887-88—F. A. Kenny, manager; Mrs. C. A. Coburn, editor.
1888-89—F. M. Sneed, manager; R. D. Cannon, editor.
1890-91—J. P. Tighe, manager; R. D. Cannon, editor.
1891-94—George H. Moffett, formerly of St. Paul, editor.
1894-98—Alfred Sorenson, city editor of the Oregonian since 1891, editor.
1898-99—Alfred D. Bowen, later founder of the Oregon Journal, editor.
1899-1906—Clifford J. Owen, editor.
1904-1905—Paul R. Kelty, managing editor.
1906-1914—John F. Carroll, editor.
Richard D. Cannon came to the Telegram from Santa Rosa, California, as editor in 1888, going to work October 2 of that year. He succeeded Mrs. Catharine A. Coburn, who moved over to the Oregonian as associate editor. Mr. Cannon, a native of Suisun, Cal., had been owner of the Santa Rosa Daily Republican and a neighbor of Luther Burbank, who even then was famous as a developer of new and useful things in orchard and garden.
Mr. Cannon found the paper paying very little attention to such departments as sports and society. He developed something of a sports page, which Harry B. Smith was to carry along much farther in the early 1900's. Up to the late 80's society and sports, more or less, took "the run of the paper" instead of being classified and segregated.
In the early 90's Mr. Cannon went to the Oregonian as a reporter. He soon left Oregon, not being well pleased with the damp climate. After a few years he was back in Salt Lake, as city editor of the Morning Herald.
From Salt Lake he went to San Francisco and worked on the Examiner in the early days of W. R. Hearst.
John F. Carroll, brought to the young Oregon Journal by C. S. Jackson as editor, signed up Mr. Cannon as city editor in 1904. He remained on the paper, much of the time as news editor or managing editor, for close to 10 years.
When Mr. Carroll went to the Telegram as editor, Mr. Cannon went with him as city editor.
In 1914 the paper was sold to John E. and L. R. Wheeler, and Mr. Carroll remained with them as editor until his death in 1917. Meanwhile Richard D. Cannon had been acting as managing editor, while the editorial writing was done, mostly, by David F. Morrison, Democrat, and N. J. (Joe) Levinson, Republican, formerly city editor of the Oregonian.
