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- [S500043] WikiTree, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10109-68783708/bishop-john-richardson-selwyn-in-wikitree (Reliability: 4).
Bishop John Richardson Selwyn<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: May 20 1844 - Waimate North, New Zealand<br>Marriage: 1877<br>Death: Feb 12 1898 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England<br>Father: Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, DD<br>Mother: Sarah Harriet Selwyn (born Richardson)<br>Wife: Annie Catherine Selwyn (born Mort)
- [S500093] Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10449-12529205/the-salt-lake-herald (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 1898.
<p>The Salt Lake Herald<br />Publication: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA<br />Date: Feb 14 1898<br />Text: "...Rt Rev John Richardson Selwyn master of Selwyn college Cambridge since 1SS3 died at Pau France yesterday Count Gustave Edmund Kalnoky de KorosPatak former AustroHungarian I minister of foreign affairs ... escaped burning to death all tho i stairways having been burned Two men slid down a rope from the third floor and two women and two men were rescued by means of ladders I The building was a three story ... Carrlng ton shot and killed Wesley Niece Saturday He also shot BayJess Niece who will I die The murderer escaped At Lyford another mining town the postmaster John Gilfay shot Joe Hoffman who will die John ... Besel an Italian was struck in the neck with a miners pick and killed His body was then placed..."<br />About this sourceOn Sunday, June 5, 1870, publishers William C. Dunbar and Edward L. Sloan, elders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), released the first issue of the Salt Lake Herald. The men promoted their newspaper as independent and neutral. The newspaper was sympathetic to but separate from the Mormon Church, while providing advertising opportunities for the growing numbers of non-Mormon merchants in the city. Their new paper, however, consistently reflected the views of the Deseret News, the official organ of the Church. Dunbar and Sloan were veteran newspapermen, having edited and managed the short-lived Salt Lake City Daily Telegraph. On September 1, 1870, John T. Caine bought an interest in the Herald. Caine, who later was a six- term delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, became the paper’s managing editor. Dunbar assumed the role as business manager, while Sloan served as general editor.Sloan’s editorials reflected the Mormon values of the day, for he thought it important to explain his faith’s beliefs to the reading public. “When the people of Utah, their faith and institutions are aspersed, maligned and unjustly attacked,” he wrote, “we shall esteem it our solemn duty to present the truth in reply, when the source is worthy a rejoinder.” Sloan had personal reasons for providing such rejoinders, for he was a devout convert to Mormonism and, with three wives of his own, a confirmed polygamist.The four-page morning daily was in many respects typical of western newspapers of the day. There were articles on agriculture, mining, religious and domestic interests as well as entertainment news. Articles on crime, vice, and natural disasters also appeared. Politically, the Salt Lake Herald was Democratic. Because it gave considerable space to controversial religious topics, however, editors of secular papers sometimes mocked the Herald as a mere proponent of the LDS Church. The Salt Lake Tribune’s pet name for the Herald, for example, was the “Mormon Herald,” while the daily Salt Lake Democrat called it the “Church Echo.” Sloan aggressively responded to such slurs with strong counter editorials, a strategy not available to the publishers of the Deseret News, which endeavored to avoid any controversy that could harm the Church.When forty-four-year-old Sloan died in August 1874, a succession of editors followed. Charles W. Penrose, who spent most of his journalistic life with the Deseret News, was Herald editor from 1892 to 1899. Horace G. Whitney got his start with the Herald as city editor and manager, and it was the only time the newspaper made a profit according to Heber J. Grant, former Herald president. Whitney became music and drama critic, then business manager, for the Deseret News, where he won wide acclaim.Senator William A. Clark, a Democrat from Montana, bought the paper in 1898, tripling revenues over the next 11 years. In 1909, however, prominent Utah Republicans assumed control, dramatically changing the paper’s political focus. The Salt Lake Herald-Republican suspended publication in July 1920, unable to compete with other papers for scarce advertising revenues</p>
- [S500093] Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10449-2425470/the-herald (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 1898.
<p>The Herald<br />Publication: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA<br />Date: Feb 14 1898<br />Text: "...of the tortures and a revision of the trial were adopted and will be forwarded to the government. iti'-rlit Rev. John Richardson Selwyn, master of Delwyn college, Cambridge Since ISM, died at Pau, France, yesterday ... »ar the Insurgent camp at Capiro, met the Insurgents in strong force and lost several killed and wounded. ANOTHER FILIBUSTER NEW YORK, Feb. 18. —A special to the World from Bridgeport, Conn., says that the collector ... , died on January 14th, agedj 63. He was formerly junior secretary o? the foreign office. He started the first mutual life insurance association in Japan, and among other achievements edited the best Anglo ... through together. The executed men were members of an armed gang of shop thieves, and in raiding a store ..."<br />About this sourceEstablished in 1873, the Los Angeles Herald represented the largely Democratic views of the city and focused primarily on issues local to Los Angeles and Southern California. Appealing to a mostly working-class audience during its 116 years of publication, the Herald evolved from a primary focus on agriculture to reporting extensively on Hollywood gossip and local scandal, reflecting the transformation of Los Angeles itself during the twentieth century. The Los Angeles Daily Herald was first published on October 2, 1873, by Charles A. Storke. The Herald was the first newspaper in Southern California to use the innovative steam press; the newspaper’s offices at 125 South Broadway were popular with the public because large windows on the ground floor allowed passersby to see the presses in motion. William Ivan “Ike” St. Johns and Adela Rogers St. Johns, a popular husband and wife reporting team, were among the notable Herald staff in the early years. Storke lost the paper to creditors, who together formed the Los Angeles City and County Publishing Company in 1874. The Herald continued to focus on local news including agriculture, business, and culture. Under the leadership of Robert M. Widney, the paper’s circulation increased dramatically. Widney interviewed local farmers and business owners for free and used this information to report on the region. The Los Angeles Weekly Herald making use of this material, sold over 1,000 copies a week. Beginning in the teens and guided by the Hearst- trained editors, Edwin R. Collins and John B.T. Campbell, the local coverage for which the Herald was known started to emphasize scandal, crime, and the emerging Hollywood scene. By the 1920s, editors Wes Barr and James H. Richardson were so well known for their investigative reporting that they became the prototypes for the morally ambiguous, chain-smoking reporters who figured in so many film noir movies of the 1930s. In 1922, the Herald officially joined the Hearst News empire, although several sources suggest that Hearst had secretly purchased the paper in 1911 when Collins and Campbell took the helm. In 1931, Hearst merged the Los Angeles Daily Herald with the Los Angeles Evening Express to form the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, which was then the largest circulating evening newspaper west of the Mississippi. See also: Los Angeles Daily Herald, October 2, 1873-November 12, 1876; Daily Los Angeles Herald, November 14, 1876-October 5, 1884; Los Angeles Daily Herald, October 7,1884-March 22, 1890; Los Angeles Herald, March 23, 1890-January 15, 1893; The Herald, January 16, 1893-March 31, 1900; Los Angeles Herald, April 1, 1900-November 1, 1911</p>
- [S500093] Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10449-331637/the-record-union (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 1898.
<p>The Record-Union<br />Publication: Sacramento, Sacramento, California, USA<br />Date: Feb 14 1898<br />Text: "...at Pan, in France. LONDON. F. b. 13.—Right Rev. John Richardson Selwyn. master of Selwyn College. Cambridge, since 1803, died at Pau. Fran. c. vestexlay. Dr, Selwyn. win. was Bishop of Melan.sia from P ... fundamental principles is the wiping out of the capitalist class at the ballot-box rather than the settlement of differences between capital and labor by strikes. BISHOP SELWYN DEAD. He Passed Away Yesterday ... and the trio falling through together. The executed men were members of an armed gang of shop thieves and i-i reading a store killed a Chinese empi jre. The criminals were disband- 1 Soldiers. The annual cotton ... to a pitch of excitement almost reaching delirium. The ceremony was one of..."<br />About this sourceDebuting under the banner, theDaily Union, the later-named Sacramento Daily Record-Union began its 143-year run on March 19, 1851. Born of an advertising war between the Sacramento Transcript and the Daily Placer Times the first issue of the Daily Union included a promise that advertisements will always be inserted upon the most liberal terms, and featured thirteen columns of ads out of the total twenty-four. Under the editorship of John F. Morse, the Daily Union quickly expanded beyond its initial 500-issue run. The paper's publishers also moved rapidly beyond their original claim that, in politics, [the] paper will be neutral and independent, and in the second month of publication came out as firm backers of the Whig Party in California. Beyond politics, the paper sought to keep its concerns regional in service to the rapidly growing city of Sacramento and its mining and agricultural communities. The paper was often referred to as the miner's bible. Interests in the paper underwent a rapid series of changes. In January 1852, the publisher C. L. Hansiker & Co. sold the paper to E. G. Jefferis & Co. Following the losses suffered in the great Sacramento fire on November 12, 1852 (from which only a small printing press and some type survived), the paper was sold in May 1853 to James Anthony & Co. Bouncing back from the fire's destruction, the Sacramento Daily Union became the first California paper to issue a double-sheet daily in 1858. The rapid turnover of publishers slowed, and the paper enjoyed further success in printing the travel log of Mark Twain on his 1866 voyage to the Sandwich Islands (modern-day Hawaii), a place Twain described as one of noble shade trees and enchanting tropical flowers and shrubbery. The paper continued to enjoy an ever-expanding readership through the 1870s under new ownership and a new title. In February 1875, the Sacramento Publishing Company purchased the Sacramento Daily Union and the Sacramento Daily Record and combined the two papers into the Sacramento Daily Record- Union before shortening the title to the Record-Union on January 10, 1891. During the 1880s, the paper's circulation swelled to 105,000 readers daily. The paper maintained its regional focus throughout the height of its popularity while also devoting space to national news of local interest, such as the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Record-Union's readership dropped to 50,000 in the 1890s, in part from competition with the Sacramento Evening Bee . In 1903, the Record-Union changed its title to the Sacramento Union , the banner it retained until 1991 when it became the Union . The paper survived another three years under this title before its demise in January 1994</p>
- [S500093] Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10449-8530682/the-anaconda-standard (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 1898.
<p>The Anaconda Standard<br />Publication: Anaconda, Deer Lodge, Montana, USA<br />Date: Feb 14 1898<br />Text: "...is 24o miles south of St. Mi,'haels and 1,440 nautical miles from 'Point Harrow. RIGHT REV. JOHN R. SELWYN. Death of the Master of Selwyin College at Pau, France. l.sndon. Feb. V3.-Right Rev. John RtIhar ... on all sides. A COLD BLOODED MURDER. Krubin Killed HisCousin-Held the PVoile at Bay and Escaped. Ncwcastle, Pa.. Feb. 13.-A cold-blooded murder was perpetrated last night at Ellwood. Andrew Krisen ... a dozen iersmons were in the dormitory of the building and narrowly es. capeed burning to death, all the stairways havtintg-en burnett. ?Twof'ti0lPP~-tlW a rope from the third floor and two women and two ... in the Victoria Jail at Hong Kong on Jan. 12, the drop being made to accommodate all three, they falling together. The executed men were members of an armed gang of shop thieves, and in raiding a store..."<br />About this sourceThe Anaconda Standard is considered by historians and journalists alike as the icon of Montana newspapers for its sophistication, the quality of its printing plant, its editorial prowess, its influence beyond Montana’s borders, and its domination of state politics. Its influence can be linked directly to its owner and creator, Marcus Daly, one of Butte’s 19th-century “Copper Kings.”In 1889, Marcus Daly invested $30,000 to establish a daily newspaper in Anaconda, Montana, a town Daly established in 1883 to house his Anaconda Copper Mining Company smelters. In creating the Anaconda Standard, Daly followed the lead of his mentor, George Hearst, a man Daly learned the mining business from in Nevada. Hearst had bought the San Francisco Examiner in 1880, which ultimately grew into the Hearst publishing empire. Daly sought out the expertise of John Durston, publisher of the Syracuse Standard and a professor of philology, to operate his infant newspaper. The inaugural issue of the Anaconda Standard hit the newsstands on September 4, 1889, just one month prior to the special election on the Montana constitution and two months prior to Montana’s entry into the Union.The eight-page, six-column newspaper boasted a contemporary design and layout while providing readers with news of the nation, region, state, and city. The first issue posted stories about a race riot in Louisiana, trotting races in Springfield, Massachusetts, the shipment of eastern rainbow trout to Yellowstone National Park, forest fires near Helena, and a Boston lecture by Charles Dickens. The Democratic newspaper declared its editorial philosophy in the first issue: “the Standard would not be ‘blindly partisan’, its politics will be in no sense personal.” The next 39 years would in fact provide ample evidence to the contrary. For the Standard’s entire history, the paper’s editors did the bidding of Marcus Daly and then, after Daly’s death in 1900, of the Anaconda Company and then Amalgamated Copper, a subsidiary of Standard Oil.The ongoing feud between Butte copper kings, Marcus Daly and William A. Clark, would play out in the two rival newspapers: the Anaconda Standard and the Butte Miner, from 1889 until Daly’s death in 1900. During the winter of 1890-91, the open roasting of copper ore in Butte produced toxic smoke that caused scores of fatalities. The Anaconda Standard editorialized against this practice, advocating instead for Daly’s Anaconda smelters which employed taller smokestacks, while Clark’s newspaper, the Miner, downplayed the problem and its connection to Butte disaster. Ironically, Daly and the Anaconda Standard supported labor unions in battles that ensued in the Coeur d’Alene silver mines, Tennessee coal mines, and steel mills in Pittsburgh during 1893. By contrast, the Standard vehemently opposed the interests of organized labor during the first two decades of the 20th century, while under new corporate ownership of the mines, smelters, and newspaper. The battle between business interests in Montana reached its crescendo during the “capital contest,” the 1894 election to decide the location of the state capital: Daly’s Anaconda versus Clark’s Helena. During an election rife with vote buying and intimidation, Montana voters selected Helena, but not without a valiant struggle waged by the Anaconda Standard.That same year, Daly’s newspaper installed Mergenthaler Linotype machines, bolstering the Standard’s claim to having the industry’s most up-to-date technology. A sophisticated engraving process allowed a cadre of Standard cartoonists to print a large number of political cartoons daily.By 1920, the Anaconda Company owned nine of the state’s fourteen major dailies, contributing to the company’s unrivaled political influence, which persisted until the sale of the newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1959</p>
- [S500025] Biographical Summaries of Notable People, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-425201/john-selwyn-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people (Reliability: 4).
John Selwyn<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: May 20 1844 - Waimate<br>Death: Feb 12 1898<br>Religion: Anglicanism<br>Education: Trinity College, Cambridge<br>Education: Eton College<br> Relatives: <br>Relation Name Birth<br>Father <a>George Selwyn</a> Apr 5 1809
- [S500010] FamilySearch Family Tree, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-96336255/john-richardson-selwyn-in-familysearch-family-tree (Reliability: 4).
John Richardson Selwyn<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: May 20 1844 - Waimate, Canterbury, New Zealand<br>Marriage: Spouse: Clara Long Innes - Jan 16 1872 - Paddington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom<br>Marriage: Spouse: Annie Catherine Mort - Aug 11 1885 - Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom<br>Parents: <a>George Augustus Selwyn</a>, <a>Sarah Harriet Selwyn (born Richardson)</a><br>Spouses: <a>Clara Long Selwyn (born Innes)</a>, <a>Annie Catherine Selwyn (born Mort)</a><br>Children: <a>Rebie Sarah Selwyn</a>, <a>Clara Violet Selwyn</a>, <a>Stephen John Selwyn</a>, <a>Margaret Elizabeth Selwyn</a>, <a>Margaret Elizabeth Selwyn</a><br>Brother: <a>Selwyn</a><br>This person appears to have duplicated relatives. View it on FamilySearch to see the full information.
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