The Philadelphia Press

The Philadelphia Press (or The Press) is a defunct newspaper that was published from August 1, 1857 to October 1, 1920.

The paper was founded by John W. Forney. Charles Emory Smith was editor and owned a stake in the paper from 1880 until his death in 1908. In 1920, it was purchased by Cyrus Curtis, who merged the Press into the Public Ledger.^[1]

Before being published in book form, Stephen Crane's 1895 novel The Red Badge of Courage was serialized in The Philadelphia Press in 1894.^[2]

Notable contributors

John Russell Young (chief Civil War correspondent)
Thomas Morris Chester (African-American Civil War correspondent)
William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John French Sloan (the "Philadelphia Four", illustrators)

See also

List of defunct newspapers of the United States

References

^ Anonymous (17 March 1930). "Again, Curtis-Martin". Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738833-1,00.html. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
^ Keith Carrabine, "Introduction," The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories, (Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 2003), xix.