American newspaper man, born in 1833 in Columbia County, NY; removed, when a lad, to Ohio; joined the staff of the Cincinnati Gazette; was twice secretary of state of Ohio; Chicago manager of the Associated Press (1870); collector of customs for Chicago under President Hayes, whose literary executor he subsequently became; in 1883 effected the union of the Western and New York Associated Press organizations, presiding over the consolidation for several years; published St. Clair Papers (2 vols., 1882); and a Biography of Charles Hammond. He died on the 26th of July 1896 at Lake Forest, near Chicago.
