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Over time, Gannett merged the Times-Union into the Democrat and Chronicle. Their staffs were merged in 1992, and the Times-Union circulation ended in 1997. [7] That same year, newspaper production was relocated from the Gannett Building to a facility in Greece, New York. [8] The Democrat and Chronicle building at Midtown Plaza in Rochester, New ...
The Rochester Advertiser began in 1826 with publisher Luther Tucker. It was acquired by the Rochester Union which was bought by Frank Gannett. In 1918 Gannett merged it with Evening Times to form the Times-Union. Ten years later Gannett purchased the 100-year-old Democrat and Chronicle, the paper with which the Times-Union ultimately merged in ...
In 2012, he became an inaugural member of the New York State Golf Association Hall of Fame. [1] Allen grew up near Rochester, New York. In 1965 and 1967 he was selected to the Walker Cup team, and also played on the Americas Cup team in those years. He never won the U.S. Amateur, but won
Gerald A. Quigley (December 18, 1895 – September 21, 1966) was an American football quarterback who played one season in the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and one in the New York Pro Football League (NYPFL) for the Rochester Jeffersons. He did not play college football. Quigley was born on December 18, 1895, in Rochester ...
In order to obtain these funds, Gannett formed a new corporation, Gannett Co., Inc. So, at age 48, Frank Gannett became the owner of six newspapers in five upstate New York cities. In 1928, Gannett purchased the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the paper for which he first worked as a paperboy.
John Machacek (February 18, 1940 [1] – July 24, 2020) [2] was an American reporter.. Machacek was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Working for The Times-Union of Rochester, New York, in 1971, he and Richard Cooper covered the Attica Prison riot.
Henry Griffin Strong (July 18, 1873 – August 13, 1919) was an American businessman from Rochester, New York. He was a partner in the Pritchard Strong Company, a manufacturer of stamped metal products. In 1910 he organized the Strong-Crittenden Company, sales agents for the Lozier, Pope-Hartford and White automobiles.
The Merrills had a daughter named Marion who was born in 1923, [3] the year Merrill became a copy reader with the Rochester, New York, newspaper the Democrat and Chronicle. [2] He was a reporter for the Rochester Journal-American from 1927 to 1937, and then returned to the Democrat and Chronicle as assistant city editor, and for the next 27 ...