Ford & Damrell (1833–1841) John Sherburne Sleeper, John A. Dix, Henry Rogers (1841–1845) Sleeper and Rogers (1845–1854) Henry Rogers & Charles O. Rogers (1854–1855) Charles O. Rogers (1855–1869) Estate of Charles O. Rogers (1869–1896) William D. Sohler (1896–1899) Stephen O'Meara (1899–1902) Frank Munsey (1902–1913) Matthew Hale (1913–1914) Walton A. Greene, Frederick Enwright, & Hugh Cabot (1914–1917) Charles Eliot Ware Jr. (1917) James H. Higgins (1917)
The paper was originally an evening paper called the Evening Mercantile Journal. When it started publishing its morning edition, it changed its name to The Boston Journal.[2]
In October 1917, John H. Higgins, the publisher and treasurer of the Boston Herald,[3] bought out its nearby neighbor The Boston Journal and created The Boston Herald and Boston Journal.[1]
Former contributors
Charles Carleton Coffin, war correspondent who wrote dispatches from the front under the byline "Carlton".
Stephen O'Meara, reporter (1874–1879), city editor (1879–1881), managing editor (1881–1895), general manager (1891–1895), editor-in-chief and publisher (1895–1899), and majority owner (1899–1902). Later served as the first commissioner of the
Boston Police Department.
Benjamin Perley Poore, Washington correspondent and war correspondent who wrote under the byline "Perley".
John Sherburne Sleeper, principal editor and part owner of the newspaper. Sleeper wrote the Journal's "Tales of the Seas" under his nom de plume of Hawser Martingale.[4]
Images
Boston Morning Journal, 1852
Boston Journal building, 19th century
Detail of 1881 map of Boston, showing location of Journal office
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abStanwood, Edward (1886), Boston Illustrated, Boston and New York: James R. Osgood & Co., and Houghton Mifflin & Co, p. 102
^"James H. Higgins, Retired Publisher; Also Was Treasurer of Boston Herald for 10 Years After Merger With Traveler Dies at Central Valley In 1917 He Bought The Boston Journal and Consolidated It With The Herald. The New York Times, page 13, August 1, 1938.
^Bacon, Edwin Munroe (1886), Bacon's Dictionary of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, The Riverside Press, p. 220,
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