 At that time his father was editor and publisher of the "Atchison Daily Champion", the first of forty-six newspapers that he eventually owned.In 1915 Eugene C. Pulliam sold the "Daily Champion" to purchase the "Franklin Evening Star" and moved the family to Indiana.Myrta Pulliam died in 1917 and Eugene C. Pulliam married Martha Ott (1891–1991) of Franklin, Indiana, in 1919.