Reid family
Biographical Notes
Whitelaw Reid
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1837, Oct. 27:
Born, Xenia, Ohio -
1856:
B. A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio -
1858 -1859 :Editor, Xenia News, Xenia, Ohio -
1860 -1861 :Legislative correspondent, Cincinnati Gazette, Cincinnati, Ohio -
1861 -1862 :War correspondent, Cincinnati Gazette -
1862 -1868 :Washington, D.C., correspondent, Cincinnati Gazette -
1866:
Published After the War: A Southern Tour, May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866 (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin. 589 pp.) -
1868:
Member, editorial staff, New York Tribune; Published Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin. 2 vols.) -
1869:
Managing editor, New York Tribune -
1872 -1905 :Editor-in-chief and chief proprietor, New York Tribune -
1881:
Married Elisabeth Mills -
1889 -1892 :United States minister to France -
1892:
Republican nominee for vice president -
1897:
Special ambassador, Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria of England -
1898:
Member, American commission to negotiate peace with Spain -
1902:
Special ambassador to the coronation of Edward VII, King of England -
1905 -1912 :United States ambassador to Great Britain -
1911:
Published The Scot in America and the Ulster Scot (London: Harrison and Sons. 56 pp.) -
1912, Dec. 15:
Died, London, England
Elisabeth Mills Reid
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1858, Jan. 6:
Born, New York, N.Y. -
1881:
Married Whitelaw Reid -
1898 -1899 :Secretary, Red Cross Society for the Maintenance of Trained Nurses Chairman, Red Cross Committee on Nursing for the Philippines -
1915:
Chairman, American Red Cross, London, England, chapter -
1931, Apr. 30:
Died, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France
Ogden Mills Reid
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1882, May 16:
Born, New York, N.Y. -
1904:
B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. -
1907:
LL.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. -
1911:
Married Helen Rogers -
1908 -1912 :Reportorial and editorial staff, New York Tribune -
1912:
President of Tribune Association and editor of the New York Tribune -
1924:
Purchased New York Herald -
1947, Jan. 3:
Died, New York, N.Y.
Helen Rogers Reid
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1882, Nov. 23:
Born, Appleton, Wis. -
1903:
B.A., Barnard College, New York, N.Y. -
1903 -1911 :Social secretary to Elisabeth Mills Reid -
1911:
Married Ogden Mills Reid -
1918 -1947 :Advertising manager, New York Tribune and New York Herald Tribune -
1947 -1953 :President, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. -
1953 -1955 :Chairman, board of directors, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. -
1970, July 28:
Died, New York, N.Y.
From the guide to the Reid Family Fapers, 1795-1970, (bulk 1869-1970), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)
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