Scripps, John Locke

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Locke Scripps
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    No. of Siblings
    12
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    3
    Family
    George Henry Scripps (father), Mary Hiler Scripps (mother), Mary Elizabeth Blanchard (wife) 
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    McKendree College (IL)
    Occupation
    Attorney or Judge
    Journalist
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Postmaster
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist
    Political Parties
    Free Soil
    Republican
    Government
    Lincoln Administration (1861-65)

    John Locke Scripps (Scripps Genealogical History)

    Reference

    John Locke Scripps (George H., William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Cape Girardeau February 27, 1818; educated at McKendree College, Ill.; settled in Chicago, in the practice of law, in 1847, but soon interested himself in journalism; was one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune, and for some years its chief editor. President Lincoln appointed him postmaster for Chicago, a position he held for four years. Jointly with George B. Armstrong, his assistant postmaster, he conceived and carried out the idea of distributing mails on the cars, a system which has since been generally introduced. He wrote in 1860 the first life of Abraham Lincoln ever published. He was a man of high scholarly attainments, great purity of character and amiable disposition. He married, October 24, 1848, Mary Elizabeth Blanchard. daughter of Seth Blanchard, of Greenville, Ill., who was born January 2, 1825, and educated at Monticello Seminary, Ill. She died suddenly on January 1, 1866, and he on September 21 of the same year.

    Scripps, James E., "John Locke Scripps," in A Genealogical History of the Scripps Family And its Various Alliances (Detroit: 1903), 31.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Dyche, Grace Locke Scripps. “John Lock Scripps, Lincoln’s Campaign Biographer.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 17 (1924): 333-351. view record
    Scripps, John Locke. Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: 1860. view record
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