New York Times Company Records. George Jones and Henry J. Raymond papers 1838-1981 1859-1869
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
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American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1850 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616358 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, 1848 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616356 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to President Lincoln, 1864 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616354 American journalist and politician. From the description of Autograph let...
Harper, Fletcher, 1806-1877
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Printer and publisher. From the description of Mortgage of Fletcher Harper, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980680 American publisher. From the description of Agreement signed : New York, 1836 Mar. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497396 Epithet: publisher, of New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x000311 ...
Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935
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President of the New York Times. From the description of Letter, 1921 Sept. 12, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904887 Publisher and President of the New York Times Company, 1894-1935. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1880-1940] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540212 Newspaper publisher, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1892-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960312 ...
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968
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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. He was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1913; he married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. Sulzberger broadened the Times’ use of background reporting, pictures, and feature articles, and expanded its sections. ...
Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882
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Thurlow Weed, politician and journalist, was born in Cairo, N.Y., on 15 November 1797. He married Catherine Ostrander in 1818. Weed was a leader of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 30's, a New York assemblyman from 1829-1831, and a key member of the Whig Party and then the Republican Party. From 1824-1826 Weed was the owner and editor of Rochester Telegraph. He published Anti-Masonic Enquirer, and from 1829-1863 he worked as a reporter and editor for the anti-Masons' paper, Albany Eve...
Griswold, Rufus Willmot, 1815-1857
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere. He built a strong literary reputation, in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America. This anthology, the most comprehensive of its time, included what he deemed the best examples of American poetry. He produc...
Jones, George, 1811-1891
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American newspaper publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "The Times Office", New York, to Thomas C. Acton, 1880 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489851 George Jones was the first publisher of the New York Times. He founded the New-York Daily Times in 1851 with Henry J. Raymond and Edward B. Wesley. After Raymond's death in 1869, Jones took over the editorship of the paper. Under his leadership, the Times was responsib...
New York Times Company.
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The National Desk, also referred to as the National News Desk or the Telegraph Desk, is the department responsible for the development and presentation of The New York Times' reporting on the United States. At the time of these records' creation, it was one of three main news desks at The Times, along with the Metropolitan Desk and the Foreign Desk. Staff members include the national-news editor who headed the department, news editors in New York City, and editors and correspondents in the vario...