Isaac Van Anden
Isaac Van Anden (December 12, 1812 – August 4, 1875) was an American newspaper publisher and founder of the Brooklyn Eagle.
Life
Van Anden was born on December 12, 1812, in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of Abraham Van Anden and Mary Lawless.[1]
Van Anden grew up on his father's farm. At a young age, he became an apprentice for the Dutchess County newspaper Poughkeepsie Telegraph. In 1837, he formed a partnership with Alexander Lee, bought the Westchester Spy from Samuel G. Arnold, and settled in White Plains. He then sold the Spy to Lee, moved to Brooklyn, and published the Brooklyn Advocate with Arnold. In 1840, the paper was merged with the Brooklyn Daily News but remained under the same management.[2]
The Daily News was a non-partisan newspaper, but William A. Green bought the paper to make it a
Van Anden was a presidential elector in the 1868 presidential election.[4] He sold the Eagle to the Eagle Association in 1870. He never married.[5]
Van Anden died at his brother William's home in Poughkeepsie on August 4, 1875.[6] He was buried in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.[7]
References
- ^ The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. XXVII. New York, N.Y.: James T. White & Company. 1939. p. 411 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Parton, James; Taylor, Bayard; Kendall, Amos; Mayo, E. D.; Patten, J. Alexander (1871). Sketches of Men of Progress. pp. 555–563 – via Google Books.
- ^ Stiles, Henry R., ed. (1884). The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y. from 1683 to 1884. Vol. II. New York, N.Y.: W. W. Munsell & Co. pp. 1182–1185 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Proceedings of the New York Electoral College, Held at the Capital in the City of Albany, on the 1st Day of December, 1868. Albany, N.Y.: The Argus Company. 1868. p. 22 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Ross, Peter (1902). A History of Long Island, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Vol. II. The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 31 – via Google Books.
- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 36, no. 184. Brooklyn, N.Y. 5 August 1875. p. 4 – via Brooklyn Public LibraryHistorical Newspapers.
- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 36, no. 187. Brooklyn, N.Y. 9 August 1875. p. 2 – via Brooklyn Public LibraryHistorical Newspapers.