Ford & Damrell (1833–1841) John Sherburne Sleeper, John A. Dix, Henry Rogers (1841–1845) Sleeper and Rogers (1845–1854) Henry Rogers & Charles O. Rogers (1854–1855) Charles O. Rogers (1855–1869) Estate of Charles O. Rogers (1869–1896) William D. Sohler (1896–1899) Stephen O'Meara (1899–1902) Frank Munsey (1902–1913) Matthew Hale (1913–1914) Walton A. Greene, Frederick Enwright, & Hugh Cabot (1914–1917) Charles Eliot Ware Jr. (1917) James H. Higgins (1917)
The paper was originally an evening paper called theEvening Mercantile Journal. When it started publishing its morning edition, it changed its name toThe Boston Journal.[2]
In October 1917, John H. Higgins, the publisher and treasurer of theBoston Herald,[3] bought out its nearby neighborThe Boston Journal and createdThe Boston Herald and Boston Journal.[1]
Charles Carleton Coffin, war correspondent who wrote dispatches from the front under the byline "Carlton".
Stephen O'Meara, reporter (1874–1879), city editor (1879–1881), managing editor (1881–1895), general manager (1891–1895), editor-in-chief and publisher (1895–1899), and majority owner (1899–1902). Later served as the first commissioner of theBoston Police Department.
Benjamin Perley Poore, Washington correspondent and war correspondent who wrote under the byline "Perley".
John Sherburne Sleeper, principal editor and part owner of the newspaper. Sleeper wrote theJournal's "Tales of the Seas" under hisnom de plume of Hawser Martingale.[4]
^abStanwood, Edward (1886),Boston Illustrated, Boston and New York: James R. Osgood & Co., and Houghton Mifflin & Co, p. 102
^"James H. Higgins, Retired Publisher; Also Was Treasurer of Boston Herald for 10 Years After Merger With Traveler Dies at Central Valley In 1917 He BoughtThe Boston Journal and Consolidated It WithThe Herald.The New York Times, page 13, August 1, 1938.
^Bacon, Edwin Munroe (1886),Bacon's Dictionary of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, The Riverside Press, p. 220,hdl:2027/mdp.39015027752982
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