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  Joseph Medill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As mayor, Medill gained more power for the mayor's office, created Chicago's first public library, enforced blue laws and reformed the police and fire department.
In ill health and tiring of mayoral responsibilities, Medill took a leave of absence and appointed as acting mayor while he traveled throughout Europe.
Medill's country estate Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois which was later occupied by his grandson Robert R. McCormick is now open to the public as a beautiful public garden, picnic area and museum for the First Division of the US Army [1] (http://www.mccormicktribune.org/firstdivision/) [2] (http://www.mccormicktribune.org/firstdivision/firstdivision.htm).
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 THE COLONEL: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955
Joseph, their eldest son, was born on April 6, 1823, near the town of St. John in a disputed region of northern Maine later awarded to British Canada under the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
If the adult Joseph Medill often behaved as if he had a personal pipeline to heaven, he came by his self-assurance the hard way, having assumed responsibility for two sisters and three younger brothers as their father's health declined and his attempts to farm the scrubby hill country of northeastern Ohio proved unprofitable.
In Medill's Tribune, the word Nation was always capitalized and the United States referred to in the singular, as an integrated federal republic and not the loose confederation of sovereign states enshrined in Jeffersonian dogma.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/10/12/mccormickch1.html   (4377 words)

  
 Joseph Medill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In ill health and tiring of mayoral responsibilities, Medill took a leave of absence and appointed Lester L. Bond as acting mayor while he traveled throughoutEurope.
Medill's country estate Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois which was later occupied by his grandson Robert R. McCormick is now open to the public as a beautiful public garden, picnic area and museum for the First Division of the US Army [1] [2].
The Medill School of Journalism, one of the many schools that comprise ot Northwestern University, and one of the top journalism schools in the United States is named after Joseph Medill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Medill   (225 words)

  
 The McKinneys Of Summer Hill And Their Neighbors - Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill, editor and publisher of The Chicago Tribune who gave a half century of his life to journalism, was born April 6, 1823 in a village near St. John, New Brunswick.
Joseph Medill's father was William Medill (January 28, 1792 - June 22, 1865), who was born on a farm near Dram and Coothill, Monaghan County, Ireland, to Thomas Medill and his wife, who had been a Rutherford, Joseph Medill's mother was Margaret Medill (March 10, 1803 - Dec 14, 1889), the former Margaret Corbett.
Joseph Medill himself, in a letter to a man who had inquired about the Medill family, relayed a report from two old maids over 80 years of age who lived in Scotland and who said the family was of Huguenot origin, driven about 1685 from France to Scotland where they became silk weavers.
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 Cissy Patterson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her grandfather Joseph Medill was Mayor of Chicago and owned the Chicago Tribune, which later passed into the hands of her first cousin Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill's grandson.
Her older brother Joseph Medill Patterson was the founder of the New York Daily News.
In 1920, her brother Joseph finally succumbed to his sister's entreaties and allowed her to write for his New York Daily News, founded the previous year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cissy_Patterson   (810 words)

  
 Joseph Medill
A member of the group known as the Radical Republicans, Medill strongly criticised Lincoln's decision to appoint conservatives such as Simon Cameron (Secretary of War), Gideon Welles (Secretary of the Navy), Edward Bates (Attorney General), and Montgomery Blair (Postmaster General) to the Cabinet.
Medill failed to persuade Abraham Lincoln to appoint Benjamin Butler as his Secretary of War.
In November, 1871, Medill was elected mayor of Chicago.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWmedill.htm   (275 words)

  
 Joseph Medill Patterson
A member of the sprawling Medill newspaper family, Joseph Medill Patterson was born in Chicago in 1879.
Joseph Medill Patterson's grandfather and namesake, Joseph Medill, was the founder of the Tribune.
Medill passed the Tribune on to his son-in-law, Robert Wilson Patterson, Jr.
centerstage.net /literature/whoswho/JosephMedillPat.html   (421 words)

  
 Medill, Joseph --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Joseph Medill was born in New Brunswick in 1823.
Born on May 16, 1877, in Chicago, Ill., Joseph Medill McCormick graduated from Yale University in 1900 and then returned to Chicago to work for the Chicago Tribune; his maternal grandfather, Joseph Medill, had once been chief owner and editor of the newspaper.
U.S. writer Joseph Hergesheimer, the author of many novels, short stories, biographies, histories, and criticism, is best known for his stories about the sophisticated, corrupt lives of the very wealthy.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051757?tocId=9051757   (762 words)

  
 CJR - Books - The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormack, by Richard Norton Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were the pioneers who led the nation into its most rambunctious and raucous period of print.
One of the many paradoxes that dominated McCormick's life was the unusual partnership he formed with his cousin, Joseph Patterson, to preserve family control of the Tribune in a vacuum resulting from the mental illness that led Joseph Medill McCormick, the Colonel's older brother, to withdraw as treasurer of the newspaper.
Dealing with the three heirs of Joseph Medill often was akin to guerrilla warfare for Roosevelt - protecting his backside from a new media onslaught while battling the Germans and Japanese.
archives.cjr.org /year/97/6/books-mccormick.asp   (1548 words)

  
 Medill School of Journalism - Graduate Journalism
At Medill we not only teach students how to think about urban issues, we send students out to cover the mayor and the city council, cops and courthouses and a cross-section of civic issues in Chicago, one of the most vibrant cities in the nation.
Medill graduate students learn how to report on the federal government while covering Congress, the White House and many federal agencies for our Washington-based news service as fully credentialed correspondents.
Medill is on the quarter system, with four 11-week quarters filling the calendar year.
www.medill.northwestern.edu /medill/grad   (572 words)

  
 Joseph Medill's Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Medill probably found this room to be very cozy place in which to relax with one of his favorite books.
Medill had a direct hand in helping to accelerate the rapid re-development of Chicago.
Joseph Medill sits in the center surrounded by his grandchildren.
www.rrmtf.org /cantigny/NewSite/mccormickmansion1stfloorjosephmedillslibrary.htm   (408 words)

  
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On ce Joseph had a son, his daughter felt that he no longer acted as if he had much need for her, the substitute son.
Joseph Patterson had not been happy when she divorced his friend Brooks, and he had been even less pleased when she married a Jew.
For much of World War II, Joseph, his sister, and his cousin were known as \ldblquote the three furies of isolationism\rdblquote because of their relentless attacks on Roosevelt.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APBio/AP_Newsday_Bio.rtf   (6823 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Patterson (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He married Elinor Medill, the daughter of Joseph Medill.
By 1914, he gained part control of the Tribune, which was managed by his cousins, Joseph Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick, and he remained as its coeditor until 1925.
Joseph Medill Patterson's daughter, Alicia Patterson, 1906–63, b.
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 Chicago Tribune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eight years later when "Long" John Wentworth entered his second term as mayor of Chicago, he sold The Chicago Democrat to Joseph Medill and five partners.
Before and during the American Civil War, Joseph Medill pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, whom he persuaded to run for the Presidency in 1860.
Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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 RRM Museum Virtual Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chicago Tribune the “World’s Greatest Newspaper.” Joseph Medill (1823-1899), who became the owner of the Chicago Tribune newspaper in 1874 built this house in 1896 for his daughter and son-in-law, respectively, Katherine Medill McCormick (1853-1932) and Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849-1919).
As editors and publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill and Robert Rutherford McCormick used the newspaper as a forum for advocating their own political points of views.
On a national scale, Joseph Medill was instrumental in helping to establish the Republican National Party and in securing Abraham Lincoln’s election to the Presidency of the United States.
www.rrmtf.org /cantigny/rrm_museum_virtual_tour.htm   (469 words)

  
 Joseph Medill Biography / Biography of Joseph Medill Main Biography
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American editor and publisher Joseph Medill (1823-1899), a staunch abolitionist and an early advocate of the Republican party, was influential in Abraham Lincoln's presidential drive.
Joseph Medill was born near the village of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, on April 6, 1823.
www.bookrags.com /biography-joseph-medill   (222 words)

  
 Medill School of Journalism, Office of Undergraduate Admission - Northwestern University
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has prepared students for rewarding and dynamic careers in the news media since 1921, teaching journalists to "write boldly and tell the truth fearlessly," as early Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill put it.
At Medill, a broad base of course work in the liberal arts is considered essential training for a journalist.
Medill students complete at least 45 courses for a bachelor of science in journalism degree.
ugadm.northwestern.edu /freshman/academics/medill.htm   (492 words)

  
 We Need Truer Democracy
Medill was the publisher of the Chicago Tribune and a major force in creating the Republican Party.
To avoid this disenfranchisement, the Medill plan of cumulative voting elected three people from a district instead of just one, and gave each voter three votes, which the voter could cast cumulatively (all three votes for one candidate).
This is, in Medill's words, a "dangerous assumption." It is the same self-justifying argument expounded by British loyalists during the Revolution: the American colonists were represented in Parliament, as members considered their interests, whether the colonists elected them or not.
www.progress.org /vote08.htm   (855 words)

  
 Newsday Biography of Alicia Patterson
If Joseph Medill was the patriarch of the Tribune dynasty, his daughters, Kate and Elinor (Nellie), were the agents of its perpetuation.
Kate’s was Joseph Medill McCormick, and Nellie’s was Joseph Medill Patterson.
Once Joseph had a son, his daughter felt that he no longer acted as if he had much need for her, the substitute son.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APBio/Newsday.html   (7369 words)

  
 Tribune group: Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Medill's grandson Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880–1955) initially worked with cousin Joseph Medill Patterson in the management of the Tribune and after serving in the 1914-18 War became sole owner of the Tribune in 1925.
The New York Daily News was launched by Joseph Medill Patterson in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News, a tabloid built around brash graphics, embodying the second generation of 'yellow journalism' and supposedly inspired by Northcliffe's advice to its owner in 1917.
It was launched in 1940 by Alicia Patterson (1906-63), daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, with primary funding from third husband Frank Guggenheim.
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 Medill School of Journalism - About Medill
Washington Post reporter Emily Wax was named the 2004 winner of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for outstanding reporting on the systematic violence threatening millions of people in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Wax has been based in Nairobi since 2002 and her stories have twice earned her entry into a select group of young journalists who are finalists for the prestigious Livingston Award for excellence by journalists under 35.
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 Medill, Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1851 he founded the Daily Forest City in Cleveland and later merged it with a Free-Soil paper to form the Cleveland Leader.
Medill bought an interest in the Chicago Tribune in 1855, became its managing editor and business manager, and from 1874 until his death had absolute control of the paper.
He was important in the formation of the Republican party (he is credited with having suggested its name) and was a warm supporter and friend of Lincoln.
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 Joseph Medill's Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In addition to establishing the Chicago Tribune as a nationally-renowned newspaper, which supported Abraham Lincoln’s candidacy for president, Joseph Medill became famous for helping Chicago rise like a phoenix from the devastating fire of 1871.
So Medill had a direct hand in helping to accelerate the rapid re-development of Chicago.
McCormick’s first wife Amy had over 20 hound dogs here at Cantigny, and by 1931 she was Master of the Foxhounds for the DuPage Hunt Club.
www.cantignypark.com /joseph_medills_library.htm   (296 words)

  
 Tribune Company :: History
The Tribune reappeared two days later with an editorial declaring "Chicago Shall Rise Again." The newspaper’s editor and part-owner, Joseph Medill, was elected mayor and led the city’s reconstruction.
Medill’s two grandsons, Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, assumed leadership of the company in 1912.
A century of family leadership, starting with Joseph Medill in 1855, ended with the passing of Col. Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, in 1955.
www.tribune.com /about/history.html   (1757 words)

  
 IIT News Bureau
It is only fitting, therefore, that the foundation bearing his name should uphold this legacy by participating in the building of a new Chicago landmark, The McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Beginning in 1911, McCormick and his cousin Joseph Patterson were co-editors of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper that grew into a journalistic powerhouse under the leadership of their grandfather, Joseph Medill.
Medill was born in 1823 and grew up in Ohio; by the time he was 27, he had purchased his first newspaper.
webservices.iit.edu /iit_news/MTCC_foundation.asp   (735 words)

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