19th-Century Newspaper Publishers (People) - Alexander Fraser Pirie, George Brown, Joseph Howe, David Syme, Charles Herbert Mackintosh (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Alexander Fraser Pirie, George Brown, Joseph Howe, David Syme, Charles Herbert Mackintosh, George Pirie, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, Herbert Ingram, George Newnes, Aleksey Suvorin, Abel Heywood, George Haynes, William Lewis Shurtleff, John Fairbairn, Joseph N wah, James Donaldson, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Yates Thompson, George Toulmin, Nicholas Flood Davin, Robert Wardell, John Ritchie Findlay, John Walter, Emile de Girardin, John Ross Robertson, William Saunders, Primo Feliciano Velazquez, John Edward Taylor, Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, Ernst Skarstedt, Meir Aron Goldschmidt, Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet, Giacomo Margotti, Joseph Gaspard Boucher, D. W. Clendenan, William Southam, Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, William Innell Clement, Simon Hugh Holmes, Christopher William Bunting, Daniel Tracey, Treffle Berthiaume, Edward Hulton, Joseph Moses Levy, George Murray Smith, Giovanni Antonio Galignani, William Elder, James Bagnall, William Luson Thomas, Charles Macfaull, Edward Lloyd, Arturo Pellerano Alfau, Arthur Fraser Walter, John Jaffray, John Feeney, William Ritchie, John T. Burton, Egerton Smith, John McLagan, Sara Anne McLagan, Leopold Ullstein, Michael James Whitty, John Davies, Adolf Werthner, Bernhard Wolff, Arthur B. Sleigh, John Frederick Feeney. Excerpt: Alexander Fraser Pirie (October 1, 1849 - August 15, 1903) was a Canadian journalist and newspaper editor. Pirie was born in Guelph, Upper Canada, to George Pirie (1799-1870), a native of Aberdeen, Scotland. His mother was Jane Booth (1825-1895), born in Lonmay Aberdeenshire to a family from Noss Island in the Shetland Islands. George Pirie emigrated to Upper Canada with a group of Aberdeen merchants and businessmen. The family arrived in 1838 and joined the Bon Accord settlement located in the vicinity of Elora. He arrived wi...