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Before long, Day was the most important publisher in New York. Day married Evelina Shepard (b. 1811) in 1831, and had four children: Henry (b. 1832), Mary Ely Day (1833–38), Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (1838–1916), the inventor of Ben-Day dots, and Clarence Shephard Day (1844–1927), a stockbroker (and father of author Clarence Shephard, Jr.). [8]
Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (March 7, 1838 [1] – August 30, 1916) was an illustrator and printer, best known for his invention of Ben-Day dots. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Day was the son of Benjamin Henry Day , an American newspaper publisher best known for founding the New York Sun , the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in 1833.
The film Deadline – U.S.A. (1952) is a story about the death of a New York newspaper called The Day, loosely based upon the Sun, which closed in 1950. The original Sun newspaper was edited by Benjamin Day, making the film's newspaper name a play on words (not to be confused with the real-life New London, Connecticut newspaper of the same name).
Benjamin Henry Day (1810–1889), American illustrator and printer; founder of the original New York Sun Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (1838–1916), American illustrator and printer The Ben Day process , printing technology invented by Benjamin Henry Day Jr.
Benjamin H. Day, founder of the first penny press in the USA. Benjamin Henry Day (1810-1889), took the lead in profoundly transforming the daily newspaper in America. The newspaper went from narrowly focusing on the wealthy, with a sparse distribution, to a broad-based news medium.
His uncle was Benjamin Henry Day, cofounder of the New York Sun and pioneer of the penny press in America, and his cousin, Clarence Day, was the cofounder of Yale University Press. His nephews were Scientific American co-proprietor, Frederick C. Beach, father of aviation pioneer Stanley Yale Beach, and businessman Charles Yale Beach. [1]
Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt (c. 1626–1659), the immigrant ancestor of the Roosevelt family, arrived in New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) sometime between 1638 and 1649. About the year 1652, he bought a farm from Lambert van Valckenburgh, comprising 24 morgens (i.e., 20.44 ha or 50.51 acres) in what is now Midtown Manhattan ...
His grandfather Benjamin Day and great-uncle Moses Yale Beach were the founders in 1833 of the New York Sun. His uncle Benjamin Henry Day Jr. was the inventor of the Ben Day printing process. Day attended St. Paul's School and graduated from Yale University in 1896, where he edited the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. [12]