Excerpt from Joseph Medill: A Brief Biography and an Appreciation

Thus another Chicago newspaper, at the time of his death in March, 1899, expressed itself in paying tribute to Joseph Medill, who while not the founder of the Chicago Tribune, laid the foundations of its char, acter and success.

In the pages which follow, the reader will find an account of some of the achieve ments and events in the life of a man who was not only a great editor, an editor of the times that gave us Greeley, Raymond and Dana, but who was, in even larger measure, a great American.

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