Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Ne\/spaper Directory and Historyhad. His paper attracted capable writers and in 1856 it earned from the New YorkTribune the tribute "the best and ablest country journal ever published on this continent."Bowles declined appointment to the editorship of papers in New York and Boston tocontinue his career as a small town editor. He was active in politics and took a firm standon issues of the day but did not wish public office and declined nominations and appointmentsin the belief that by so doing he could be more independent in his work as aneditor. He died January 16, 1878. Under him the Republican became known as a firstclass school of Journalism and many able reporters and editors served their cub daysunder the direction of its staff. He was elected to the Hall October 15, 193 1—Election 9.Charles DickensCharles Dickens (1812-1870), reporter, special correspondent, and newspaper andmagazine editor, was born February 7, IS 12, in Portsea, England. The family later movedto London, Kent, and Chatham. Dickens was apprenticed to a lawyer when in his teensand took up the study of shorthand in his spare time. He secured his first journalisticexperience as a parliamentary reporter for the London True Sun in 1831 and within afew weeks of his undertaking the work was rated by his fellow-workers as a reporter ofhigh merit. The reporters on the paper named him as their spokesman in his second yearon the staff when they struck to secure a raise in wages. In 183 3 he left the True Sunand joined the Mirror of Parliament. In 183 5 he joined the staff of the Morning Chronicle.During the first six years of his newspaper experience his work as a reporter took him intoevery part of London and among all kinds of people. In 1837 he became editor of Bentley'sMiscellany, a magazine in which Oliver Twist first appeared as a Serial. He left thispublication to start a weekly of his own. Master Humphrey's Clock. He gave up hi^connections with the press in 1842 to tour America. In 1846 he returned to journalismas editor of the London Daily News. He began a popular weakly in 18 50 under the titleHousehold Words, and after its success was established he brought out another paperAll the Year Round, which appeared in 18 59. He was an energetic editor but the workdid much to break down his health because of his other activities and writings. He diedIn 1870, a reporter to the ages. He was elected to the Hall October 15, 1931—Election 10.Charles Anderson DanaCharles Anderson Dana (1819-1897), great editor of the New York Sun and theChicago Republican, was born August 8, 1819, in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. He receivedprimary school training in Gaines, New York, and following a period of clerkingin a general store and home study he entered Harvard. After two years of college studyhe taught school for a short time and then, in 1841, he entered Brook Farm, an experimentalventure in community living, where he served as a worker and as editor of thecommunity paper the Harbinger. He stayed there five years, working on the farm byday and writing for magazines and his paper in the evenings. In 1846 he left the Roxbury,Massachusetts, colony and became city editor of the New York Tribune after ashort period as a reporter. There he served under Horace Greeley until 1862, a part ofthe time as managing editor. He then accepted appointment as assistant secretary of warand later as a confidential agent for President Lincoln. His connection with Illinoisjournalism came after the Civil War when he was editor of the Chicago Republican fora short time. He returned to New York and bought the New York Sun in 1869. Fornearly thirty years he was editor of the Sun and under him it came to be known as the