William Conant Church
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William Conant Church (1836-1917) was an American editor, born in Rochester, New York.
He studied at and was educated in the Boston Latin School. While still a youth he engaged with his father in editing and publishing the New York Chronicle.
In 1860 he became publisher of the New York Sun and in 1861 - 1862 was Washington correspondent of the New York Times. He resigned this position on his appointment as captain in the United States Volunteers in 1862.
He served for one year, receiving brevets of major and lieutenant colonel. In 1863, along with his brother, he established the Army and Navy Journal and in 1866 founded the Galaxy Magazine. He was government commissioner to inspect the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1882.
With George Wood Wingate he established the NRA (1871) and was later (1872) its second president, replacing General Ambrose Burnside; he was also one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an original member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and became a life member and director of the New York Zoölogical Society.
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