Briton Hadden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce.

Hadden got his start in newspaper writing at the Hotchkiss Record, a newspaper at the Hotchkiss prep school. At Yale, Hadden was elected to the staff of the Yale Daily News and later served as the paper's chairman twice (1917-1918 and 1919-1920). Luce was the News' managing editor both times.

Also at Yale, Hadden was a brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon

After receiving his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1920, Hadden did some newspaper work but found the current options unsatisfying. In 1923, he co-founded Time Magazine. Hadden and Luce served alternating years as the company's president.

In December 1928, Hadden became ill, and died a few months later of a throat infection caused by influenza.

After Hadden's death, Luce presided over the growth of the Time-Life empire, and donated funds towards the construction of a building at 202 York Street in New Haven, Connecticut that would eventually become the Yale Daily News' new home. The office is today called the Briton Hadden Memorial Building.

Hadden and Luce were both 1920 inductees into Skull and Bones.