I 1I11 Pulitzer Joseph THE More DOWNEAST DILETTANTE: Pulitzer Prize: Chatwold Blog X eppster2@comcast THE DOWNEAST DILETTA Tales & Opinions From Maine Regarding Architecture, Art, Books, Design, Landscape, & Occasiona 13.4.10 Receive t Dilettante Pulitzer Prize: Chatwold Email a Today's announcement of this year's Pulitzer Prizes reminded me that the events that led to the creation of the prize were set in motion here in Down East Maine in 1902. Search Th A VERY SO New Yor one of the favorite g now he C too. Click on t Chatwold, Entrance front from Sheldon's Artistic Country Seats to read S Dilettante In 1893, Joseph Pulitzer, arguably the most powerful newspaper publisher in America, and his wife, Kate Davis, NYSD. T cousin of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, came to Bar Harbor for the summer, renting the Louise Bowler Patrick C Livingston estate, spectacularly located on a cove off Ocean Drive south of town. kind invita Party. 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By continuing to use this website, you consent to Columbia University's usage of cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with the Columbia University Website Cookie Notice (https://cuit.columbia.edu/content/columbia- university-website-cookie-notice), 3/1/2019 Joseph Pulitzer, II (1885-1955) - Find A Grave Memorial 2 Find A Graye CENOTAPH Joseph Pulitzer, II BIRTH 21 Mar 1885 New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA DEATH 30 Mar 1955 (aged 70) Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA CENOTAPH Oak Grove Cemetery Bel-Nor, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA PLOT Crematorium. MEMORIAL ID 39559395 . View Source United States Navy, World War I JOSEPH PULITZER JR. He was the publisher of the Post Dispatch. His Photo added by Athanatos first marriage was to Elinor Wickham. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Edgar. He was the son of Joseph Pulitzer and Kate Davis. From HWA: No Ordinary Joe: A Life of Joseph Pulitzer /// by Daniel W. Pfaff, Page 92 useful Approximately five hundred people attended his funeral at Christ Church Cathedral on April 2, 1955 Although a burial plot beside his first wife was available at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, J.P. II chose cremation out of respect to his second wife. His ashes were scattered from the company airplane over Frenchman Bay at Bar Harbor. Family Members Parents Spouses Joseph ? Elizabeth Pulitzer Edgar 1847-1911 Pulitzer 1890-1974 Kate Davis (m. Pulitzer 1853-1927 (marriage) 1926) Elinor Wickham Pulitzer 1886-1925 Siblings Children Ralph Kate Davis Pulitzer Pulitzer 1879-1939 Quesada 1916-2003 Lucille Irma Pulitzer ? Elinor 1880-1897 Pulitzer Hempelma Katherine nn Ethel 1922-2012 Pulitzer 1882-1884 Constance Pulitzer Elmslie 1888-1938 Herbert Pulitzer 1896-1957 Created by: SLGMSD https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39559395/joseph-pulitzer 2/3 THE AFTERMATH 393 Ralph Pulitzer and Frederica were divorced in 1924. She remarried soon after. Four years later he married novelist and historian Margaret Leech. In 1930 a nervous breakdown forced him to resign from the World, and his Puliter : a Life brother Herbert replaced him. Ralph died in 1939 at age fifty-six. While Joe was fishing off the Florida Keys in March 1925, his wife Elinor died in a car crash. A year later he married Elizabeth Edgar. Although Joe had lost his sight in his left eye and had only partial "tubular vision" in his right, he Devis Brian. was an avid duck shooter and salmon fisher and was said to be able to spot a pretty woman at two hundred paces. He closely supervised his editors or edited NY . John Wiley to Sons, 2001. the Post-Dispatch himself until his death in 1955 at seventy Because he loved both of his wives, he avoided the problem of which one he should be buried next to by requesting to be cremated and have his ashes scattered from a plane off Egg Rock in Frenchman's Bay, His widow Elizabeth died in 1974 at eighty- four, and her ashes were scattered in the same area. Daniel W. Pfaff wrote a august revealing biography of Joe, Joseph Pulitzer II and the Post-Dispatch: A Newspa- perman's Life, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 1991. Pulitzer's youngest son, Herbert, was a flying instructor in the U.S. Navy during World War I, and married Mrs. Gladys Amory in 1926. He briefly took over the World after Ralph's breakdown in 1930 but had neither the training, talent, nor inclination for the job. And he antagonized the staff by remaining aloof, smoking perfumed cigarettes, and speaking in an explosive British accent. Herbert suffered from eye trouble and in 1934 had one eye removed. Because of this he was at first turned down when he tried to reenlist during World War II, but he was later accepted by the RAF. After the war he spent much of his time traveling or at his shooting lodge in Scotland. He died at sixty in 1955. His son Herbert Jr. hit the headlines as a Palm Beach playboy involved in a sensa- tional divorce in 1982. THE NEWSPAPERS For ten years after Pulitzer's death the World flourished with such notable recruits as Heywood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott, and Her- bert Bayard Swope, the latter considered by World city editor James Barrett as the best reporter in the world. In 1919 Swope won the first Pulitzer Prize for journalism for his series "Inside the German Empire," and became the paper's editor in 1920. John Leary Jr. also got the prize, in 1920, for articles on the national coal strike, and Louis Seibold the following year for an exclusive inter- view with President Wilson. In 1922 the World's Rollin Kirby was the first car- toonist to get the award. When Frank Cobb died of cancer in 1923, Walter Lippmann look over the editorial page. He aimed for a more intellectual reader - less fun and fire- works - and naturally circulation and income suffered The World itself won