He was a graduate of the Knob Noster High School and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He published the Knob Noster Gem until enlisting in the armed forces in World War II. He served in the 339th Infantry Division in Africa and Italy. Before his retirement he worked with the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Services in Washington, DC as editor, and Chief of Office of Information Assistant Director. Prior to that the worked with the Missouri Conservation Commission from 1947 until 1964 during which time he was the editor of the Missouri Conservationist.377

“Dan Saults, perhaps Missouri’s best-known outdoor writer, died in September at the age of 74. He once the editor of this magazine.

Mr. Saults had been active in outdoor writing both in Missouri and nationally, for 50 years.…Dan attended Central Missouri State Teacher’s College in Warrensburg, Missouri and the University of Missouri, Columbia. He took over the Knob Noster Gem in 1935, becoming the youngest newspaper publisher in the state.

Mr. Saults published the Gem until he joined the Army in 1942. Discharged in 1946, he freelanced for a year before joining the Department of Conservation.

He became editor of the Missouri Conservationist in April 1947 and remained head of the magazine until he was appointed assistant director of the Department in May 1957.

He spent seven years as assistant directory before moving to Washington, D. C., in April 1964, where he was assistant to the director of the Bureau of land Management and later was information officer for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

After his retirement in 1973, Mr. Saults moved to Branson, but his retirement was as typically busy as his working life.

He wrote extensively, especially for the Springfield News-Leader and he Ozarks Mountaineer, and served as president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America in 1979-80. He also won the Jade of Chiefs award from that organization—its top conservation honor.

He continued active in the Outdoor Writers Association, especially on its scholarship committee. He also was active in the Conservation Federation of Missouri.”
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Dan Saults was the author and inventor of the “Knob Noster ghost.” he ghost was dreamed up when he was a boy, as a good story to tell on summer nights. The story became so well known that evantually a book called Legends of Missouri, which was published in 1939, included it. Dan confessed his part in an article he wrote for the Kansas City Journal newspaper, for which he worked. 326

All of the family information for Mattie Mayse McFarland can be found on the World Family Tree CD Vol. 18, #2244. Data found on 8 June 1999. All of her brothers and sisters are listed as well.

She graduated from North High School, North, Missouri and attended Chillicothe Business College in Chillicothe, Missouri (spelling is from newspaper). She was employed as a secretary at the Jefferson City Board of Education offices from 1964 until her retirement in 1974. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Daughters of Anerican Revolution, Jane Randolph Chapter, and the Mid-Missouri Genealogical Society.380

2012, May 17th - Obituary - Helen Saults (1923 - 2012) Palm Springs CA Desert Sun:

Helen Saults, 89 of Palm Springs passed away on May 17, 2012. Helen was born February 19, 1923, to Sophia and Thomas Cooper in Jefferson City, Missouri. Helen married Charles Daniel Saults in May, 1965. Helen and Dan lived in Washington, D.C. where she worked as a Secretary for the Advisory Board, U.S. Dept. of Interior. After retirement they moved to Branson, Missouri and in 1997 Helen moved to Palm Springs. Her husband Dan, preceded her in death in 1985. Helen had no children and is survived by two sisters, Dorothy Tipton of Lacon, Illinois and Estelle Layton of Palm Springs, and a step-daughter, Courtney Saults Harp and four step-grandchildren who reside on the East Coast. Helen spent her years in Palm Springs enjoying volunteering at the Welwood Murray Library, Annenberg Theatre and Palm Springs Museum, and being a member of the P.E.O. in Palm Desert. Helen surely appreciated her P.E.O. Sisters concern. At Helen's request all funeral arrangements were private.

Published in The Desert Sun from May 24 to May 26, 2012Helen Saults

There were no children to this marriage.