From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E. J. Heinemann. 
 
p. 625 
 
JOHN E. DAY, editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer, has a very important  
and responsible position to fill, and has worked his way to it step by  
step, thoroughly understanding every part of the work that he  
superintends.  He was born August 8, 1853, and is a son of William McK.  
and Mary (Kinsey) Day. 
    William McK. Day was born in Wheeling, in 1821.  His father went to  
Wheeling in 1817; he was very prominent, and held many positions of  
trust, the last of which was that of city treasurer.  William McK. Day  
married Mary D. Kinsey, who was a daughter of John Kinsey, of Pleasant  
Valley, Ohio.  She was a Quakeress, and was born in 1829. 
    John E. Day attended school in Wheeling and acquired an education  
there, after which he took a special course at the state university at  
Morgantown.  For the next few years he occupied a position in the post  
office, and then found a place on the Evening Standard, as reporter.  
This position he kept until 1878, when he became telegraphic editor of  
the Wheeling Intelligencer.  He has occupied every position on this  
paper known to the editorial or news department, and at the death of G.  
A. Dunnington early in 1900, he took the place of editor-in-chief. 
    Mr. Day was married on March 14, 1901; his wife is a member of the  
Fourth Street M. E. church.  In politics the subject of this sketch is  
a Republican.  He is very popular and may well feel proud of his  
success in journalism.