| 词条 | Victor Lawson |
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BiographyHe was born in Chicago on September 9, 1850 to Iver Lawson (1822–72) and Melinda (Nordvig) Lawson (1827-1896).[3] He had a brother, Iver Norman Lawson (1865-1937).[4] He died of a heart attack in 1925 in Chicago.[5][6][7] He was interred at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery where his grave is marked with a sculpture of a medieval knight designed by Lorado Taft.[8] [9]PublishingLawson's family grew rich from real estate dealings in Chicago, and held stakes in a Norwegian-language newspaper called the Skandinaven.[2] The Chicago Daily News, founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy and William Dougherty in 1875,[10] was a tenant in the same building as the Skandinaven. The Daily News was struggling, but Victor Lawson decided to invest in it in July 1876, becoming its manager. Within twenty years, its circulation grew to 200,000 people. Lawson mainly focused on the business aspects of the paper, while Stone and others worked as editors. Helping to fuel the paper's success was Lawson's ability to attract advertisers. Lawson provided clear circulation figures to businesses and promised consistent rates for advertisements.[2] The Daily News employed Eugene Field, one of the first major newspaper columnists, and contained a mix of fiction, household advice, and reports on city happenings. David Paul Nord writes, "It was quintessentially an urban newspaper, committed to private business but also to activist government, to social welfare, and to the broad public life of the city. It was a progenitor of the kind of progressive reform politics that came to flower in many cities during the early twentieth century." In 1898, Lawson founded an early foreign news service, which became a key component of the Daily News.[2] [11]References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Donovan|first1=Henry|title=Chicago Eagle|url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=CHE19190614&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------#|website=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections|accessdate=26 June 2015}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 David Paul Nord. "Lawson, Victor Fremont". American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. February 2000. Retrieved on October 11, 2011. 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://mms.newberry.org/html/Lawson.html |title=Victor Freemont Lawson |date= |accessdate=2013-11-17 |quote=Victor Freemont Lawson was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 1850. His father, Iver Lawson, was a Norwegian immigrant, a laborer who came to prosperity buying and selling real estate in Chicago during the mid 1800s. Little is known about his mother Melinda Nordvig ... |publisher=Newberry Library |location=Chicago, Illinois }} 4. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Iver N. Lawson. Brother of Late Chicago Publisher Dies Here of Pneumonia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/02/archives/iver-n-lawson-brother-of-late-chicago-publisher-dies-here-of.html |quote=Iver N. Lawson, brother of the late Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of The Chicago Daily News, died Wednesday night in St. Luke's Hospital at the age of 72. |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 2, 1937 |accessdate=2013-11-17 }} 5. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=V.F. Lawson Dies From Heart Attack. Publisher of Chicago Daily News Expires Suddenly in His Home. Edited Paper 49 Years. Was a Founder of The Associated Press |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/08/20/archives/vf-lawson-dies-from-heart-attack-publisher-of-chicago-daily-news.html |quote=Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Dally News, died at his home here tonight after an illness of two days. |newspaper=Associated Press in the New York Times |date=August 20, 1925 |accessdate=2013-11-17 }} 6. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Victor Lawson, Famous Chicago Publisher, Dies |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GEMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D0oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7218,6646483&dq=iver+lawson+publisher&hl=en |quote=Lawson was just well started on the fiftieth year of his work as publisher of the ... father was Iver Lawson who came to Chicago from western Norway. ... |newspaper=Pittsburgh Press |date=August 20, 1925 |accessdate=2013-11-17 }} 7. ^"Victor F. Lawson is dead". Chicago Daily Tribune. August 20, 1925. 8. ^Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski. Graveyards of Chicago. Lake Claremont Press, 1999. 21. 9. ^{{cite web|url= http://chicagopublicart.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-crusader-victor-lawson-monument.html|title= The Crusader: Victor Lawson Monument |publisher= Chicago Public Art|authors= Wendy K. Koenig and Christine Badowski |date= August 29, 2013 |accessdate= November 20, 2015}} 10. ^David Paul Nord. "Stone, Melville Elijah." American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. February 2000. Retrieved on October 15, 2011. 11. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/archive/media/2009/12/26_hamilton_roving.pdf|title= Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, page 158-170|publisher= Louisiana State University Press|author= John Maxwell Hamilton |date= 2009 |accessdate= November 20, 2015}} Further reading
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