Ivory Chamberlain Explained

Ivory Chamberlain (March 13, 1821 - March 9, 1881) was the editor of the New York Herald.^[1] He was a political supporter of his friend and neighbor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune.^[2] He also worked for Manton Marble at the New York World.^[3] He wrote a biography of Millard Fillmore.

Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain,^[4] who was also an influential writer at newspapers, and Elizabeth Chamberlain were his children.^[1]

When he went from the World to the Herald in 1876, he was very highly paid for an editorial writer.^[5] He was part of a small group of highly influential writers at the World involved in Democratic Party politics.^[6]

Bibliography

• Biography of Millard Fillmore (1856), Thomas & Lathrops

Notes and References

1. Book: Gray Williams. New Castle: Chappaqua and Millwood. 2006. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-3928-7. 104–.
2. Book: Judith A. Ranta. The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker. 2003. UPNE. 978-1-55553-564-3. 51–.
3. Book: Mary Cortona Phelan. Manton Marble of the New York World. 1957. Catholic University of America Press.
4. Book: Kenneth Whyte. The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst. 2009. Counterpoint. 978-1-58243-467-4. 78–.
5. Book: Talcott Williams. The Newspaperman. 1922. C. Scribner's Sons. 158–.
6. Book: Daniel W. Crofts. A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man". 15 April 2010. LSU Press. 978-0-8071-3739-0. 153–.