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2. Pete Savage and the Iron River Pioneer.

Author

VON ENDE LAPPIN, ZOE

Subjects
NEWSPAPER editors, NEWSPAPERS, HISTORY of newspapers, SAWMILLS, NINETEENTH century, HISTORY
Abstract

The article focuses on life and career history of Peter James Savage, who was owner, editor, and publisher of the weekly newspaper the "Iron River Pioneer". Topics include celebration of Pete Savage Day in Iron River, Wisconsin, history and printing of "Iron River" papers and establishment of Iron River's first lumber mills.

Published
2017

3. THE POWER OF THE PEN.

Author

Nevergold, Barbara A. Seals

Subjects
AFRICAN American newspapers, AFRICAN American social conditions, NEWSPAPER editors, RACE riots, AFRICAN American journalists, AFRICAN American history, HISTORY
Abstract

A biography of activist journalist Andrew Jackson (A.J.) Smitherman is presented, with focus given to his work arguing for the equality and improved social conditions of African Americans. He was born in 1883 in Childersburg, Alabama, and worked for the Oklahoma African American newspaper "Muskogee Cimeter" following college. He would later establish his own paper, "The Tulsa Star," and moved to Buffalo, New York, where he founded the newspaper "The Buffalo Star." The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 are discussed.

Published
2013

4. John Nelson and his life in Eureka.

Subjects
BUSINESSMEN, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
Abstract

A biography of the paint store and contracting firm owner John D. Nelson is presented. He was born in Odessa, Minnesota in the early 1890s and attended the Lincoln School in Eureka, California. His jobs as a youth, including delivering papers, painting buggies and cars for Eureka's John Tomlinson auto painting shop and working in a tobacco factory, are discussed. During World War I, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in San Pedro, California and San Diego, California.

Published
1985

5. Benjamin Fooy 1759-1823 "The Original Memphian.".

Author

Fox, Jon T.

Subjects
TENNESSEE state history, CHICKASAW (North American people), HISTORY, NATIVE American history
Abstract

A biography of trader and judge Benjamin Fooy is presented. It examines his relations with the Chickasaw or Choctaw Indians, his marriage to Chickasaw Indian Sarah Fooy, and his knowledge of French. The author also comments on Fooy's move to the fourth Chickasaw Bluffs, or Memphis, Tennessee, and his mansion and slave plantation at the location called Fooy's Point. Governor of Spanish Louisiana Manuel Gayoso and Chickasaw chief Ugulayacabé are also discussed.

Published
2010