Henry Jarvis Raymond

It sold for a penny.

Co-founders Henry Jarvis Raymond, a journalist, and George Jones, a former banker, promised their paper, quote, "Will be free from bigoted devotion to narrow interests and will be open, within necessary limitations, to communication upon every subject of public importance." End quote.

Six years later, they would shorten the name of the paper to simply The New York Times.

Notably, in the 1870s, their promise to the public was tested when a member of William "Boss" Tweed's New York political machine attempted to bribe Jones, the publisher, with a $5 million bribe not to publish a damaging expose exposing their corrupt practices.

And the first time it was used in an American newspaper, it was aimed at Vanderbilt for the opposite of what we mean today.

Henry Raymond wrote in the New York Times in 1859 that Vanderbilt was a robber baron for challenging a government subsidized shipping monopoly.

He was the spoiler, not the monopolist.

The word is flipped almost

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Our theme was composed by Maddie Ghost, and our announcer was Henry Jarvis.

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I mean, even within journalism history circles, he's not as popular as a Pulitzer or a Hearst.

But, I mean, you did a fantastic episode some time ago on Henry Raymond and George Jones, who were the first founding owners of the Times.

And so they came in the 1850s, and Adolph Ox came right after them in 1896.

And Ox is a person who made the paper really into the New York Times we recognize today.

Thurlow Weed, to whom Lincoln afterwards became greatly attached, was Seward’s devoted and loyal friend and champion.

He gallantly led the fight for him, ably supported by Edwin D. Morgan, the war governor of New York, and chairman at that time of the National Committee, and also by Henry J. Raymond, the distinguished founder of the New York Times, and in later years lieutenant-governor of the State of New York.

Before the convention was called to order, at least eight candidates were in the field.

To enumerate them, William H. Seward of New York, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, Salmon P.