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Wilkie, Francis Bangs 1832-1892

Journalist; born in West Charleston, N. Y., in 1832; graduated at Union College in 1857; removed to Davenport, Ia., where he engaged in journalism in 1859. He was connected with the Herald in Dubuque till the Civil War began, and then went South as a war correspondent. He established and published for a short time Our whole nation, in Macon City, Mo., when he became war correspondent of the New York Times, and served as such for four years. He wrote for the Chicago Times for seventeen years under the name of Polinto; was the organizer and first president of the Chicago Press Club; and author of History of Davenport; Walks about Chicago; The history of Great inventions, etc. He died in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1892.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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