Doherty, Joseph

Joseph Doherty (1889-1965) was a public relations officer for O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, the real estate and railroad barons who built Shaker Heights, Ohio, and the Cleveland Union Terminal. Doherty began his career with the Philadelphia Press in 1909. He later worked for the Philadelphia Evening Times and the New York Telegraph, as well working in public relations for the Red Cross, before the Van Sweringen brothers hired him in 1922. He wrote a history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Smooth is the Road, and retired in 1954.

From the guide to the Joseph Doherty Papers, 1921-1944, (Western Reserve Historical Society)