Ivory Chamberlain (March 13, 1821 - March 9, 1881) was the editor of the New York Herald. He was a political supporter of his friend and neighbor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. He also worked for Manton Marble at the New York World. He wrote a biography of Millard Fillmore.
Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain, who was also an influential writer at newspapers, and Elizabeth Chamberlain were his children.
When he went from the World to the Herald in 1876, he was very highly paid for an editorial writer. He was part of a small group of highly influential writers at the World involved in Democratic Party politics.
Bibliography
- Biography of Millard Fillmore (1856), Thomas & Lathrops
References
- ^ Gray Williams (2006). New Castle: Chappaqua and Millwood. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-0-7385-3928-7.
- Judith A. Ranta (2003). The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker. UPNE. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-1-55553-564-3.
- Mary Cortona Phelan (1957). Manton Marble of the New York World. Catholic University of America Press.
- Kenneth Whyte (2009). The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst. Counterpoint. pp. 78–. ISBN 978-1-58243-467-4.
- Talcott Williams (1922). The Newspaperman. C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 158–.
- Daniel W. Crofts (15 April 2010). A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man". LSU Press. pp. 153–. ISBN 978-0-8071-3739-0.