Ivory Chamberlain

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

References
  1. Gray Williams (2006). New Castle: Chappaqua and Millwood. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-0-7385-3928-7.
  2. Judith A. Ranta (2003). The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker. UPNE. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-1-55553-564-3.
  3. Mary Cortona Phelan (1957). Manton Marble of the New York World. Catholic University of America Press.
  4. Kenneth Whyte (2009). The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst. Counterpoint. pp. 78–. ISBN 978-1-58243-467-4.
  5. Talcott Williams (1922). The Newspaperman. C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 158–.
  6. 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.
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