Robert William Houston Harte was a newspaperman who co-founded Harte-Hanks Communications.
[1] Harte went to work as business manager for the Missouri Republican and was then its editor and publisher until 1920.
Hanks' first newspaper acquisitions were the Abilene Reporter-News and the San Angelo Standard.
[2] At the time of his death, in 1972, the company owned a television station and 19 newspapers across six states.
[3] Harte created the book In Our Image along with Time illustrator, Guy Rowe, a collection of Bible stories published in 1949 by Oxford University Press.