When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: legacy obituaries chicago tribune obituary search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Legacy.com - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy.com

    Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]

  3. Ralph Frese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Frese

    In a 2008 interview, Frese told the Chicago Tribune that his "first boat was a canvas kayak he bought for $15 when he was 14 years old. From then on, he spent time paddling Chicago-area rivers and extolling the virtues of riverbank wilderness." [2] [4] In the early 1950s, Mr. Frese founded the Illinois Paddling Council. [2]

  4. Robert R. McCormick - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._McCormick

    Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American publisher, lawyer, and businessman.. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

  5. Walter Trohan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Trohan

    Trohan was born on July 4, 1903, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.In 1920, he family moved to the South Side of Chicago, where his father was a wholesale grocer.He attended Bowen High School, reported for a bit at the Daily Calumet, and in 1926 graduated from the University of Notre Dame.

  6. Joseph Medill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Medill

    Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.

  7. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prematurely...

    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  8. George William Bliss - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Bliss

    George Bliss (July 21, 1918 – September 11, 1978) was an American journalist. [1] He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for the Chicago Tribune and was associated with two others:

  9. Martha Ruggles Bernhard Updike - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Ruggles_Bernhard_Updike

    Martha Franc Ruggles Bernhard Updike (October 18, 1937 – October 9, 2023) was an American social worker and the widow of author John Updike.She served as a model for several of his fictional characters, including in his story "A Constellation of Events", which was loosely based on the initiation of their relationship.