Mr. C. H. Willingham

Mr. C. H. C. WillinghamAmerican Press.
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For many years Mr. Willingham was the editor of the Rome Tri-Weekly Courier, which he edited with marked ability.He made that paper progressive and an honor to the people of the city in which he lived.His ready, forcible and versatile pen was always battling for the Democracy, and wherever the fight was hardest, there the bright emanations from his trenchant pen were found battling in the front ranks.For several years he edited the Cartersville Free Press, a first class paper, which he established amidst many difficulties and made successful.While editing this paper his editorials were marvels of ability, logic and forcible reasoning.For many years he continued in this good work, wording his editorials always without fear, favor or partiality.His paper was a pattern of what an almost perfect sheet should be typographically, and as a newspaper it was always in the front rank.

As a man he was hospitable to friend or foe.He never cherished animosities and was always ready to forgive and forget.He harbored malice to no one, and would often denounce some overt act of a politician and engage in warm controversy with his contemporaries, and afterwards he would be as hospitable to and meet them as warmly as if they had always been the staunchest of friends.He was ever striving to do right, and in the generosity and warmth of his heart he gave away as readily as he received, often when he could not afford it.
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On Tuesday morning of December 30th, 1884, Mr. C. H. C. Willingham, editor and proprietor of the Cartersville Free Press, breathed his last.