Background
Honce, Charles was born on November 18, 1895 in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Son of William Henry and Alice (Clark) Honce.
Honce, Charles was born on November 18, 1895 in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Son of William Henry and Alice (Clark) Honce.
Graduate Keokuk (Iowa) High School, 1913.
Sports editor and city editor Constitution Democratic, Keokuk, 1913-1915, Keokuk Gate City, 1915-1917. City editor Gazette, Burlington, Iowa, 1917-1918. Reporter Capital, Des Moines, 1919.
With Associate Press, Chicago, 1919, central division news editor, 1927-1930, eastern division news editor, 1930, successively executive news editor, executive Sunday editor, general news editor, 1937-1944, assistant general manager in charge of news-features, Wide World Photos 1944-1953, retired, 1953.
Member Newspaper Council of Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Illinois, 1929-1930. Served in France with battery C, 337th field artillery, 88th division, World War I. Member Bibliographical Society of America, Mark Twain Research Foundn., Baker Street Irregulars, Kentucky Colonels Association, Chicago Press Veterans Association, American Association of Feature and Sunday.
Club: Dutch Treat.
Married Emmanuella Flood, November 16, 1916.