Wilkeson, Samuel

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Samuel Wilkeson
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Family
    Samuel Wilkeson, Sr. (father), Catharine Cady (wife), Bayard Wilkeson (son), Frank Wilkeson (son)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Union College
    Occupation
    Businessman
    Journalist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder

    Samuel Wilkeson (Herringshaw, 1914)

    Reference
    Wilkeson, Samuel G., journalist, was born May 9, 1817, in Buffalo, N.Y. He was for twelve years a staff writer on the New York Tribune; and its war correspondent in the army of the Potomac. He was the editor and owner of the Buffalo Democracy and of the Albany Evening Journal, having bought out Thurlow Weed in 1865. He was secretary of the Northern Pacific railroad company since 1869. He died Dec. 2 1889, in New York City.
    Thomas William Herringshaw, ed., Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’’ Association, 1914), 5: 698.

    Samuel Wilkeson (Milwaukee Yenowine’s News)

    Obituary
    Samuel Wilkeson, journalist, explorer and railroad official, who died recently, was born in Buffalo in 1817, graduated from Union college and studied law. He early showed a predisposition for newspaper work, and in 1856 started a liberal daily paper in Buffalo, The Democracy. Governor Seward and Thurlow Weed persuaded him to go to The Albany Evening Journal. He bought an interest and managed the paper for a year and a half, when his health failed, and he sold out. After a rest he went on the editorial staff of The New York Tribune, and eventually represented the paper in Washington. For a year immediately after the important war period he left The Tribune for The New York Times. This occurred from his indignation at Horace Greeley’s act in bailing Jeff Davis.
    “Samuel Wilkeson,” Milwaukee (WI) Yenowine’s News, December 15, 1889, p. 9: 3.
    Date Event
    - Battle of Gettysburg
    How to Cite This Page: "Wilkeson, Samuel," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/33818.