Jurist and newspaper editor John Eakin was publisher of the Washington Telegraph, the only state newspaper to remain in operation throughout the Civil War. Eakin, who preferred to sign his name Jno (a common abbreviation for John at the time), was a strong supporter of women’s rights, served on the state Supreme Court, and was a member of the 1874 state constitutional convention. Eakin died in 1885.
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