Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Newspaper Directory and HistoryMaximilian Felix Ernst HardenMaximilian Felix Ernst Harden (1861-1927), founder and for many years distinguishededitor of the German weekly, Die Zukunst (The Future), was born in Berlinand educated in the French Gymnasium of that city. He then entered upon a career injournalism, first attracting attention by his political attacks under the pen name ofApostata. In 1892 he founded Die Zukunst in Berlin and in it, with bitter satire andinvective he began to point out the evils of the court, the government, and Germansociety. His paper was soon the most feared of all German publications by the rulingclasses. Harden showed himself as bitterly opposed to the war when Germany marchedagainst France in 1914. Many editions of his paper were confiscated or suppressed bythe government during the war. Harden was as independent as he was fearless. Hewrote of Bolshevism and Socialism as bitterly as of German Imperialism and the mistakesof Capitalism. At all times he was a fearless critic of the German High Command andwhen the German revolutionary government was set up at the close of the war he sparedneither it nor the succeeding administrations. His writing and publications were aconstant illustration of high motives and fine courage. On many occasions he was ableto make his point of view prevail and to force the parties he attacked to give way beforethe court of public opinion. He was elected to the Hall on November 11, 1932Election 14.Henry WattersonHenry Watterson (1840-1921), last of the great personal journalists and greateditor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, spanned the period from the beginning of theCivil War to the days following the World War. In the sweep of years from 1865 to1914 he was a dominant figure in the journalism of the South and the Reconstruction.His journalistic career began in 18 59 on the Washington Union, was interrupted by warservice in the Confederate army, and was resumed with editorship of the Rebel, atChattanooga. After the end of the war he went to the Cincinnati Times, then to theRepublican Banner at Nashville, and at last to the Louisville Journal, which he soonconsolidated with the Courier. The Louisville paper was "Marse Henry" from 1868 untilhis death in 1921. He was elected to the Hall November 11, 1932—Election 15.Samuel Langhorne ClemensSamuel Langhorne Clemens (183 5-1910), great reporter of the American sc;neand American manners, made his first contact with journalism at the age of twelveyears when he was apprenticed to the editor of a country weekly, the Missouri Gazette,in Hannibal, Missouri. He learned the printer's trade and the routine of the countrypaper and toward the end of his third year of apprenticeship went to a rival paper, theHannibal Journal. He contributed to the editorial columns of both Hannibal papersand filled in as editor of the Journal from time to time. Then followed a period of fifteenmonths of travel as a journeyman printer, in which he worked for the St. Louis EveningNews, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Ledger, and other papers, and wrote occasional newsand travel letters and minor pieces for various publications. He was for several yearsa reporter of local news on Nevada and California newspapers, covered the first meetingsof the Nevada state legislature for the Virginia City Enterprise of that state in 186 3and 1864; was a local reporter on the San Francisco Call, Pacific Islands correspondentfor the Sacramento Union, a contributor of daily and weekly travel letters under contractwith New York City and other papers, served as Washington correspondent for theNew York Tribune, Herald, and Citizen, and was owner editor for several years of the672