The Washington Times (1894–1939)
The Washington Times (1894–1939) was an American, English-language daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1894 and merged with The Washington Herald to create the Washington Times-Herald in 1939.
For the current newspaper in Washington, D.C., see The Washington Times.Type
Daily newspaper
The Washington Times Publishing Company
March 18, 1894
1939
Washington, D.C.
United States
History[edit]
The paper was created by Indiana instrument manufacturer Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) while he served as a United States Congressman. The first publisher was Stilson Hutchins. Subsequent owners included newspaper syndicate owner Frank A. Munsey, (known as the "Dealer in Dailies" and the "Undertaker of Journalism"), Arthur Brisbane, and William Randolph Hearst.[1]
After Hearst's acquisition of The Washington Herald, the newspaper's operations moved to the Philip M. Jullien designed Washington Times and Herald Building in 1923.[2][3]
Reporters and columnists[edit]
Washington Times writers and columnists included Arthur Brisbane, Ruth Jones pen name "Jean Eliot", Rilla Engle, Evelyn Hunt, A. Cloyd Gill, Homer Dodge, Avery Marks, humorist Kirk Crothers Miller, William Lenhart McPherson, Robert Halsey Patchin, "dean of the Washington press" Colonel Matthew Fitzimmons Tighe,[4][5] and William Lee Trenholm.[6][7]
Editors[edit]
Harry Atwood Colman, Louis Ashley Dougher, Earl Godwin, Ralph A. Graves, Ruth Eleanor Jones, Alonzo T. MacDonald, Arthur D. Marks, Caryll Neil Odell, M. G. Seckendorff, and Edward Dwight Shaw.[6][7]