Will B. Tomlinson
Will B. Tomlinson, of the firm of Tomlinson & Wilson, proprietors of the Ironton Busy Bee, was born in Ripley, Ohio, March 23, 1847. He has been in the business of journalism since the age of sixteen, when, by the murder of his father, he was forced to leave school and help support his widowed mother and orphaned sister. He became proprietor of the Ripley Bee in 1875. In the spring of 1880 he removed the office to Ironton, where he began the publication of the Ironton Busy Bee. In the fall of that year Mr. G. W. Wilson became associated with him as a partner. The remarkable success of this paper under adverse circumstances, is a matter of great credit to the editorial and business management of the firm.
History of Lawrence Co., Ohio by Hardesty (1882)