See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:GORDON See also:BENNETT (1794-1872)
, See also:American journalist, founder and editor of the New See also:York See also:Herald, was See also:born at Newmills in See also:Banffshire, See also:Scotland, in 1794 (not in 1800, as has been stated)
.
He was educated for the See also:Roman See also:Catholic priesthood
in a See also:seminary at See also:Aberdeen, but in the See also:spring of 181g, giving up the career which had been chosen for him, he emigrated to See also:America
.
Landing at See also:Halifax, Nova See also:Scotia, he earned a poor living there for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time by giving lessons in See also:French, See also:Spanish and bookkeeping; he passed next to See also:Boston, where See also:starvation threatened him until he got employment in a See also:printing-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office; and in 1822 he went to New York
.
An engagement as translator of Spanish for the See also:Courier of See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, took him there for a few months in 1823
.
On his return to New York he projected a school, gave lectures on See also:political See also:economy and did. subordinate See also:work for the See also:journals
.
During the next ten years he was employed on various papers, was the See also:Washington correspondent first of the New York Enquirer, and later of the Courier and Enquirer in 1827–1832, his letters attracting much See also:attention; he founded the short-lived Globe in New York in 1832; and in 1833–1834 was the See also:chief editor and one of the proprietors of the Pennsylvanian at See also:Philadelphia
.
On the 6th of May 1835 he published the first number of a small one-cent See also:paper, bearing the See also:title of New York Herald, and issuing from a cellar, in which the proprietor and editor played also the See also:part of salesman
.
" He started with a See also:disclaimer of all principle, as it is called, all party, all politics "; and to this he consistently adhered
.
By his See also:industry, sagacity and unscrupulousness, and by the variety of his See also:news, the " spicy " See also:correspondence, and the See also:supply of See also:personal See also:gossip and See also:scandal, he made the paper a See also:great commercial success
.
He devoted his attention particularly to the gathering of news, and was the first to introduce many of the methods of the See also:modern American reporter
.
He published on the 13th of See also:June 1835, the first See also:Wall See also:Street See also:financial See also:article to appear in any American newspaper; printed a vivid and detailed See also:account of the great See also:fire of See also:December 1835, in New York; was the first, in 1846, to obtain the See also:report in full by See also:telegraph of a See also:long political speech; and during the See also:Civil See also:War maintained a See also:staff of sixty-three war correspondents
.
See also:Bennett continued to edit the Herald almost till his See also:death, at New York, on the 1st of June 1872
.
His son, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:GORDON BENNETT (1841— ), took over the management of the paper during the last See also:year of its founder's See also:life, and succeeded him in its See also:control
.
It was he who sent See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry M
.
See also:Stanley on his See also:mission to find See also:Livingstone in Central See also:Africa, and he fitted out the " See also:Jeannette" Polar Expedition, and in 1883 established (with See also:John W
.
See also:Mackay) the Commercial See also:Cable See also:Company
.
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