[Mark Mills; commonly called Brick Pomeroy]. American journalist, born in Elmira, NY, on the 25th of December 1833; died in Brooklyn, NY, on the 30th May 1896. He gained the rudiments of an education in the common schools, and at seventeen was apprenticed to the publisher of the Corning (NY) Journal; later conducted a paper of his own in Corning, and afterward in Athens, PA; from 1857 to 1864 he lived in Wisconsin and published the La Crosse Democrat, which came to have a very large circulation; moved to New York in 1868 and founded Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat, which gained an immense circulation because of its radicalism and sensationalism. He suffered financial loss, and for a time lived in Chicago, but returned to New York in 1875, resumed the editing of his paper and became one of the chief supporters of “greenbackism.” His health soon failed him, and he went to Colorado and there engaged in mining and railroading, but still kept up his connection with several New York radical papers. He published several books, principally on economic subjects; among them, Sense (1868); Nonsense (1868); Gold Dust (1872); Brick Dust (1872); Home Harmonies (1874); and Perpetual Money (1878).
