Ventura
County
Biographies
ROY DAVID PINKERTON
Roy David Pinkerton, whose
journalistic experience covers a period of twenty-eight years, has since June,
1925, been editor of the Ventura County Star; a daily newspaper published by
the Ventura County Star, Inc., of which he is president. He was born in Crookston, Minnesota, June 28,
1885, a son of Henry David and Hattie May (Newton) Pinkerton. His advanced educational training was
received at the University of Washington in Seattle, from which institution he
was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911.
It was in 1905, when a young man of
twenty years, that Mr. Pinkerton began his newspaper career as a reporter on
The Tacoma Times, published in Tacoma, Washington. He was subsequently connected as reporter,
and later as assistant city editor, with The Ledger of Tacoma, became a copy
reader with The Los Angeles Tribune in 1911 and was sub-editor of The Los
Angeles Express in 1912. Next he was
associated with The Sun of Seattle as city editor in 1913 and in the following
year represented The Seattle Star in a similar capacity. During the six-year period between 1915 and
1921 Mr. Pinkerton was editor of The Times of Tacoma and from 1921 to 1923
edited The Star of Seattle. The next
year he served as associate editor of The Press of Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1925
was editor of The Sun, published in San Diego, California. Thence he came to Ventura and on the 15th
of June, 1925, founded the Ventura County Star, which he has edited and
published to the present time. In 1926
he purchased the Ventura Daily Post, which he consolidated with The Star. The Ventura County Star, established as a
weekly newspaper in 1883, is one of California’s live dailies and has become a
strong force for progress and advancement in the Ventura district under the
capable management of Mr. Pinkerton. The
Star is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the United Press
Association, NEA Service, Inc., California Newspaper Publishers Association and
the Ventura County Newspaper Publishers Association. He resides on the Rancho Del Caballito, or the One Horse Ranch, situated twelve miles from
the city of Ventura, where he owns one hundred acres of land partly planted to
fruit trees. On the 21st of
August, 1912, Mr. Pinkerton married Flora Hartman, of Bozeman, Montana, and
they became the parents of two sons: Roy
Hartman, now nineteen years of age, who is a student at the University of
Washington; and Robert Newton, a youth of fifteen years. On the 16th of May, 1923, Mr.
Pinkerton was again married, his second union being with Airdrie
Kincaid, of Seattle. Mr. and Mrs.
Pinkerton are the parents of a daughter, Airdrie
Paula, who is six years of age.
Active in community work, Mr.
Pinkerton is a valued member of the Rotary Club, of which he served as
president in 1929-30. He has been a
director of the Ventura County Chamber of Commerce, director of the Ventura
Chamber of Commerce and president of the Ventura Community Chest. He is a member of two Greek letter
fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Delta Chi, and enjoys high standing
in social circles of the community in which he makes his home.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 187-188, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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