The Scripps Family - Rushville, IL
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N 40° 06.989 W 090° 34.707
15T E 706361 N 4443496
A short history of this pioneer journalists family, who lived in Rushville.
Waymark Code: WM38KT
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 02/26/2008
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Marker Erected by: The Scripps Park Bicentennial Landscaping Committee and the Illinois State Historical Society.
Marker Text:
This site was the homestead of the Scripps family -- pioneer journalists and philanthropists. John Scripps (1785-1868), a Methodist circuit-rider, settled here in 1831. In 1849 he began publishing the Prairie Telegraph, now the Rushville Times. His nephew, John Locke Scripps (1818-1868), co-founded the Chicago Tribune and wrote the first biography of Abraham Lincoln. A great-nephew, Edward Wyllis Scripps (1854-1926), founded United Press and the first newspaper chain in the United States -- Scripps Howard. An older brother, James E. Scripps (1835-1906), founded the Detroit Evening News; and their sister, Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), pioneered the concept of the feature article in journalism.
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