Journalist; born in
Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 30, 1817; purchased the Lancaster
Intelligencer in 1837 and three years later the
Journal, which papers he amalgamated under the name of the
Intelligencer and journal.
He subsequently became part owner of the
Pennsylvania and
Washington Union.
He was clerk of the national House of Representatives in 1851-55; started the
Press, an independent Democratic journal, in
Philadelphia, in 1857, and upon his re-election as clerk of the House of Representatives in 1859 he started
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the
Sunday morning chronicle in
Washington.
Among his publications are
Anecdotes of public men (2 volumes);
Forty years of American journalism;
A Centennial commissioner in Europe, etc. He died in
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9, 1881.