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    Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and...
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    Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 – May 26, 1946) was an American journalist, publisher and founder of the Daily News in New York. At the time...
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  • Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (né Reeve; born April 3, 1937) is an American retired journalist and author. A descendant of the Medill-Patterson media...
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    after Joseph Medill (1823–1899), owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune, which was then run by his grandsons Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson...
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    Her grandfather, Joseph Medill, was Mayor of Chicago and owned the Chicago Tribune, which later passed into the hands of another Medill grandchild, her...
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  • Embassy. He was the son-in-law of Chicago Mayor and newspaper publisher Joseph Medill. William Grigsby McCormick (1851–1941), a Chicago businessman who was...
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  • politician Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946), American journalist and publisher Joseph Turner Patterson (1907–1969), Mississippi Attorney General Joseph Victor...
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    Joseph Medill McCormick (May 16, 1877 – February 25, 1925) was part of the McCormick family of businessmen and politicians in Chicago. After working as...
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  • newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News. It was the...
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    Robert R. McCormick (category Medill-Patterson family)
    inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. His elder brother Joseph Medill McCormick (known as "Medill McCormick") was slated to take over the family newspaper...
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  • circulation of newspapers in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the Chicago Tribune became closely associated with the Illinois politician...
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  • was born on December 2, 1913, in Libertyville, Illinois. Her father, Joseph Medill Patterson, was a publisher of the New York Daily News. When Albright...
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    tenure as mayor ended on December 4, 1871, when he was succeeded by Joseph Medill. Mason's wife Harriet died on March 29, 1891. He died at his home in...
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    The fireboat Joseph Medill was commissioned in Chicago, Illinois, in 1908, and was the first of two Chicago fireboats of that name—the second being commissioned...
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    an uncle of Robert Sanderson McCormick (son-in-law of Joseph Medill); granduncle of Joseph Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick; and great-granduncle...
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    The Chicago Political Tradition (4th ed.). – scholarly biographies about Medill, Harrison II, Dunne, Busse, Thompson, Dever, Cermak, Kelly, Kennelly, both...
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  • horses and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was progressive Republican U.S. Representative...
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    Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago...
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    Commons has media related to Nickelodeons. The Nickelodeons, written by Joseph Medill Patterson and published in the November 23, 1907 issue of The Saturday...
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    building a rectangular lot. The Daily News Building was commissioned by Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News. The design incorporates...
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    Alice P. Albright (category Medill-Patterson family)
    descendent of Joseph Medill, who owned the Chicago Tribune and had been elected mayor of Chicago and is the namesake of Northwestern University's Medill School...
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    would eventually become Kirkland & Ellis. McCormick was the grandson of Joseph Medill, who had founded the Chicago Tribune. McCormick became president of...
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    foreign-born individuals have been elected or otherwise served as mayor, Joseph Medill and Anton Cermak.[citation needed] Among the notable unsuccessful mayoral...
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    working-class voters in the two decades after the 1871 fire. The key leader was Joseph Medill, owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune. Several historians of the...
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    Joseph Medill, started the Chicago Tribune, which the family continued to own. Hanna and Medill had three children: Katrina (born 1913), John Medill (born...
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    Central Railroad a right of way along the city lakefront. In 1872 mayor Joseph Medill obtained passage of the "Mayor's Bill", which granted him and other...
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    Charles Anderson Dana, Horace Greeley, Joseph Pulitzer, Samuel Bowles III, James Gordon Bennett and Joseph Medill and a fountain honoring Victor Lawson...
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    McCormick, businesswoman, philanthropist Florence McLandburgh, writer Joseph Medill, publisher, mayor of Chicago Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect Minnie...
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  • drafted an idea for a detective named "Plainclothes Tracy" and sent it to Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Patterson...
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    administration repealed a Sunday ban on liquor sales which his predecessor, Joseph Medill and Bond supported. In 1874, Colvin's administration was rocked by allegations...
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