INDEX TO
BIOGRAPHIES
HENRY NATHANIEL CARY
| Among notable successes in life is that of Henry Nathaniel Cary, popularly known as Harry Cary, whose father estab-lished the LaCygne Journal in association with John P. Kenea in 1780. Along about 1878 Harry "graduated" from the little country printing office and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was employed on a great daily newspaper owned by a relative. He began a career which achieved real distinction. He was called to New York to manage the Times Newspaper, later going to Chicago to be associated with Joseph Medill in the making of the Chicago Tribune, then back to New York on the New York World, and during the Spanish American War was in charge of the news service in the military and naval campaign about Cuba, having a large number of reporters operating a fleet of dispatch boats all over the area of operations. On his return home he was called again to Chicago to become the agent of the association of publishers there to. represent them in everything pertaining to ethical questions in their profession, and especially the labor question, in which he showed rare strength of character and the better qualities of a real diplomat. He died in Chicago, where his widow and daughter Emile now live.
(History of Linnn County, by William Ansel Mitchell, 1928, Page 365) |