Bennett, James Gordon

Life Span
to
Full name
James Gordon Bennett
Place of Birth
Scotland
Burial Place
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
Henrietta Agnes Crean (wife), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (son), Jeanette Bennett (daughter)
Occupation
Businessman
Educator
Journalist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic

James Gordon Bennett (American National Biography)

Scholarship
With $500 in capital, Bennett launched the New York Herald on 6 May 1835. It contained tidbits of local news, summaries of national, state, and foreign news, and a few advertisements. A week later it reappeared on a daily basis, soon adding a new feature--a Wall Street column that explained commercial and financial developments to lay readers. By the late 1830s the Herald and the Sun were the nation's largest circulation dailies. By the 1850s the Herald's average daily circulation was between 50,000 and 70,000, the largest in the nation.
James L. Crouthamel, "Bennett, James Gordon," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00112.html.
Date Event
In New York Harbor, the first Great Ocean Yacht Race across the Atlantic begins.
The first Great Ocean Yacht Race across the Atlantic ends at the Isle of Wight in the English Channel.
Date Title
New York Times, “The American Panic,” October 14, 1857
Washington (DC) National Era, “Collapse of Abolitionists,” October 22, 1857
New York Times, “Breaking Up Rapidly,” September 12, 1859
New York Times, “The Herald in Harness,” July 21, 1860
Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 15, 1861
Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 16, 1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Sucking Nelson,” May 13, 1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Lying Dexterity,” May 14, 1861
Date Title
James Buchanan to James Gordon Bennett, March 11, 1861
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