Joseph Medill Patterson was an American journalist, publisher and founder of the Daily News in New York. His father was Robert W Patterson Jr, a journalist at the Chicago Tribune who married the boss's daughter. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty (weekly 1924-1950) | 1924 | 1931 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1915/00/00 | Joseph Patterson cover WW I as a Tribune foreign correspondent based in Belgium, Germany and France from 1914-15. | Military | |||||
| 1917/00/00 | After the US enters WW I, J M Patterson joins the Rainbow Division of the 149th Field Artillery. Rising from private to Captain he served at the 2nd Battle of the Marne, the struggle around St Mihiel, the Argonne fighting and in the defense of Champagne. | Military | Meuse | ||||
| 1918/02/00 | Captain Patterson and his troops are hit with 500 gas shells. Patterson is hospitalized with 6 other soldiers all of whom died later that night. | Military | |||||
| 1919/01/00 | Passing through London on his way home to America, Joseph Patterson visits Lord Northcliffe to discuss journalism and human nature. Northcliffe believes a tabloid newspaper like his Daily Mirror would be a success in the US. | Publisher | |||||
| 1919/06/26 | 'Illustrated Daily News' is first published by Joseph Medill Patterson. | Publisher | Daily News Building | New York City | |||
| 1930/00/00 | Designed by architect Raymond Hood, Daily News Building is in Midtown Manhattan for the New York Daily News newspaper, 1929-1930. | Publisher | Daily News Building | New York City | |||
| 1946/05/26 | Captain Joseph Medill Patterson dies in New York. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, section 6, site 5681-A. | Died | Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington, VA |
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