James E. Scripps
James Edmund Scripps (March 19, 1835 – May 28, 1906) was an American newspaper publisher and
Early life and education
Scripps was born in 1835 in
Career
Scripps was employed at the Chicago Tribune in 1857 but moved to Detroit in 1859. By 1862 he had become manager of the Detroit Tribune, and he later became part owner and manager of the Detroit Daily Advertiser. When the Advertiser's premises burned in 1873, Scripps took his $20,000 insurance money and with it started his own newspaper. Scripps decided to tap the growing literate class of working men and women by launching a newspaper, The Evening News (later, The Detroit News). Running with an idea new for its time, he filled the paper with inexpensive advertising and instructed his reporters to write "like people talk". His competitors called the News "a cheap rag" and labeled his reporters "pirates", but Detroiters loved it.
Scripps later had an interest in E. W. Scripps Company with his younger half-brother, E. W. Scripps and they controlled newspapers located in Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago.
After a lengthy European acquisition tour, Scripps aided prominently in founding the Detroit Museum of Art (later, the
In 1900, Scripps wrote a letter for the Detroit Century Box time capsule.[3]
Family life
Scripps's sister and one-time partner
Scripps's eldest daughter, Ellen Warren Scripps (1863–1948), married
Death
Scripps died in 1906 at the ripe old age of 71 years old and is buried in Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery.
Books
- Five Months Abroad (1881)
- Memorials of the Scripps Family (1891)
- A Genealogical History of the Scripps Family and its Various Alliances (Detroit: privately printed, 1903)
- numerous pamphlets
References
- ^ The only earlier collection, James Jackson Jarves' collection of Italian paintings, was purchased by Yale in 1871.
- ^ "DIA Exhibition Catalogues". dalnet-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ "Letter written by James E. Scripps". Detroit Historical Society.
Sources
- Obituary for James E. Scripps, The Rushville Times, May 31, 1906 at the Wayback Machine (archived July 1, 2011)
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