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The New York Sun

NEWSPAPER

Newspaper famous for answering Virginia on 21 September 1897, that yes indeed there is a Santa Claus. Became defunct in 1949.

Another newspaper called The New York Sun existed from 2002 to 2008.

Location:
New York City

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Journalist
26-Jan-1871 15-Nov-1958 The Great American Fraud
Mortimer J. Adler
Philosopher
28-Dec-1902 28-Jun-2001 How to Read a Book
Stu Bykofsky
Columnist
c. 1941   Philadelphia Daily News
Henry Chadwick
Journalist
5-Oct-1824 20-Apr-1908 Father of baseball
Walter E. Clark
Politician
7-Jan-1869 4-Feb-1950 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1909-13
Richard Harding Davis
Author
18-Apr-1864 11-Apr-1916 Yellow-era journalist




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