OnEarth, June 22nd, 2007
Alice Higinbotham Patterson and her husband, Joseph Medill Patterson, the onetime publisher of the Chicago Tribune who went on to found the New York Daily News, shared, among other things, a deep love for the land. In the early 1900s the pair bought a working farm along the Des Plaines River in Illinois, where they raised corn and pigs--and their daughters. Joseph moved to New York after he founded the Daily News in 1919, and the pair split in 1928. Though many cited distance as their trouble, their grandda...
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