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Ellen Mary Scripps died of breast cancer in 1841. [3] After the failure of his bookbinding shop and the death of his second wife, James Mogg emigrated to the United States with his six children in April 1844. They headed to Rushville, Illinois, where other members of the Scripps family owned property. James Mogg married his third wife Julia ...
Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher. He and his sister Ellen Browning Scripps founded The E. W. Scripps Company, today a diversified media conglomerate, as well as the United Press news service (which became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958).
Booth got his start in the newspaper industry as the son-in-law of James E. Scripps (who, in turn, was the older half-brother and one-time partner of E.W. Scripps). The former had founded The Evening News (later The Detroit News) in 1878, later turning business control over to Booth.
Ellen Warren Scripps Booth (1863–1948) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. Biography. Scripps was born on December 10, 1863, to her parents ...
Pages in category "Scripps family" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... E. W. Scripps; Ellen Browning Scripps; J. James E. Scripps; S.
The Scripps Family Agreement also sets forth a process for the family to vote its shares on company matters, including the election of directors. Two of Edward W. Scripps' great-grandchildren ...
The parents of slain Pennsylvania teacher Ellen Greenberg shook their heads and exchanged puzzled looks as attorneys squared off at Philadelphia City Hall on Wednesday in the 14-year-old case as ...
Scripps was born in 1835 in London to James Mogg Scripps and Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps. His father was a bookbinder who came to America in 1844 with six motherless children. Scripps grew up on a Rushville, Illinois, farm.