The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 225 J. CLIFFORD KAYNOR. J. Clifford Kaynor is well known in journalistic circles in eastern Washington as editor of the Evening Record, published at Ellensburg. He was born in Ames, Iowa, February 20, 1887, a son of H. G. and Sarah (Stamp) Kaynor, both of whom were natives of New York, whence they removed to the middle west, becoming early settlers of Iowa. The father was associated with the American and Great Northern Express Companies until 1912, when he joined his son J. Clifford, in Ellensburg. The latter, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, completed a high school course at Fort Dodge, Iowa, by graduation and then, with the lure of the west upon him, made his way to Seattle, where he arrived in March, 1907. He worked for a few months on the Morning Times and also for a few months on the Yakima Republic. He later spent two years on the Post-Intelligencer of Seattle and his newspaper work in the northwest followed four years' experience in newspaper circles in Iowa. He also spent a short time in the University of Washington, pursing a journalistic course. It was in July, 1909, that Mr. Kaynor arrived in Ellensburg and purchased the paper of which he is now editor and owner. The Evening Record was established on the 1st of July, 1909 as successor to the Ellensburg Localizer, which had been founded in 1883 by D. J. Schnebly. In 1905 the daily edition of the Localizer was established and on the 1st of July, 1909, the Evening Record issued its first copy, absorbing the Daily Localizer. In 1915 a new building, sixty by one hundred and twenty feet, was erected. This is the finest country newspaper building in the northwest. It was erected especially for the purpose used and the plant includes the most modern equipment, including two linotype machines and everything necessary to produce first class work. The company prints on an average of pages to the paper, all home print, and the circulation is about nineteen hundred copies per day. They use Associated Press service and Mr. Kaynor displays a most progressive spirit in editing and publishing the Evening Record, which ranks with the leading daily papers of the northwest. On the 14th of October, 1908, Mr. Kaynor was married to Miss Bessie B. Howard, a daughter of A. E. and Grace (Ashfield) Howard of Yakima. Mr. and Mrs. Kaynor have become the parents of two children: Margaret Elizabeth, who was born in March, 1910: and Howard Henry, born August 30, 1913. Fraternally Mr. Kaynor is connected with the Elks Lodge, No. 1102, of Ellensburg and is also a Mason, belonging to Lodge No. 39. He is an honorary member of Sigma Delta Chi, being identified with the Zeta Chapter of Washington. In professional circles he is widely known and honored, as indicated in the fact that he has served as president of the Washington State Press Association in the years 1917-18. He is now chairman of its executive committee and he has been very active in the organization, filling all of its offices. His political allegiance has ever been given to the progressive branch of the republican party since he reached his majority and while not an office seeker he has been a most stalwart champion of the policy of the party, doing everything in his power to promote its growth and insure its success. He has served as chairman of the school board and has been identified with many activities for public benefit and progress. He has been president of the Young Men's Christian Association, has been vice chairman of the county committee of the National Council of Defense has been a director of the Ellensburg Chamber of Commerce and active in Red Cross work. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Episcopal church. He is a first lieutenant of Machine Gun Company of the Third Washington Infantry, in which he is very active. His editorials, his personal labor and his influence have all been directed strongly in favor of the war activities and the national policy, and there is no plan or measure for the public good that does not receive his endorsement and cooperation. His editorials are concise and trenchant his arguments logical and convincing. He presents any cause which he espouses with clearness and his writing has the "touch" which carries it across. He is justly accounted one of the leading newspaper men of the state and, moreover, he is one who recognizes the fact that the press is both the mirror and the molder of public opinion and that as such it can do much to regulate public standards and shape public thought and action. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.