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Joseph Medill. Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. He was a major factor in the creation of the Republican Party, the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, and the start of the American Civil War. He was also briefly mayor of Chicago, his term in ...
Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune , and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.
Joseph Medill was a Canadian-born American editor and publisher who from 1855 built the Chicago Tribune into a powerful newspaper. He was the grandfather of three newspaper publishers: Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph M. Patterson of the New York Daily News, and Eleanor M.
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Joseph Medill (1823-1899) Abraham Lincoln holding the “Press and Tribune” circa 1858-1860. “Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune regarded the President as a kind of personal property, and when his faction seemed not to be securing its share of the patronage he raged: ‘We made Abe and by G- we can unmake him…'” wrote historian David ...
Jun 10, 1997 · By the time Tribuen Editor Joseph Medill died atthe end of the century, the U.S. had weathered a civil war and expanded westward across the continent. Medill, who tunred the Tribune into a modern ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Joseph Medill. American editor and publisher Joseph Medill (1823-1899), a staunch abolitionist and an early advocate of the Republican party, was influential in Abraham Lincoln 's presidential drive. Joseph Medill was born near the village of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, on April 6, 1823. His father, who had emigrated from Ireland, moved ...
Jan 15, 2018 · Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-432) and index Preface -- Fertile soil -- The patriarch -- Joseph Medill and the making of the president 1860 -- The great Chicago fire : Mayor Medill's personal phoenix -- The worst two she-devils in all of Chicago -- The Medill sisters' upward scramble -- Cissy comes of age -- The male cousins : heirs, pawns, victims, survivors -- Cissy ...
