20 Facts About Arthur Brisbane

Arthur Brisbane was one of the best-known American newspaper editors of the 20th century, as well as a real estate investor.

Arthur Brisbane founded the Fourierist Society in New York in 1839, and backed several other phalanx communes in the 1840s and 1850s.

Arthur Brisbane's syndicated editorial column had an estimated daily readership of over 20 million, according to Time magazine.

Arthur Brisbane bought The Washington Times and the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin in 1918 and sold both to Hearst 15 months later.

Arthur Brisbane later bought the Detroit Times on behalf of Hearst.

Arthur Brisbane was accused of engaging in yellow journalism having published an editorial that called for the assassination of President McKinley.

Arthur Brisbane remained part of the Hearst media empire until his death in 1936.

The New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Arthur Brisbane, all publish what Mr Arthur Brisbane has said.

Arthur Brisbane's column is headed, with simple finality, "Today", a column that vies with the weather and market reports for the size of its audience, probably beating both.

Cummin, a well-known member of the Explorer's Club, called Arthur Brisbane "a well-informed naturalist", and said the two collaborators discussed the subject of naturalism frequently.

Arthur Brisbane is known to have invited the radical journalist and pamphleteer Eleanor Baldwin to move to New York to take up a writing job with him, but she declined the offer to remain at her home in the Pacific Northwest.

Arthur Brisbane was instrumental in preserving a large section of land he had amassed in central New Jersey along the Jersey Shore between 1907 and 1936.

Arthur Brisbane transformed the Allaire area from a near-deserted village to a luxurious country estate, complete with a state-of-the-art horse farm, "Allaire Inn", toy factory, a camp for Boy Scouts, and training grounds during the war years.

Arthur Brisbane used his professional connections to bring silent film companies to his property at Allaire, which was used as a backdrop.

Arthur Brisbane even opened up his estate during the Great Depression to "New Deal" work programs.

Arthur Brisbane employed a large staff to take care of his property at Allaire, which at one time was boasted to occupy 10,000 acres, though the actual count was closer to 6,000 acres.

Arthur Brisbane eventually began to explore the history of his property at Allaire and, in the 1920s, became aware of its great historic significance.

Arthur Brisbane was married to Phoebe Cary, the eldest daughter of polo player Seward Cary and the former Emily Lisle Scatcherd.

Arthur Brisbane died in Manhattan on Christmas Day, December 25,1936 and was buried in the Batavia Cemetery at Batavia, New York.

At his death, Hearst said, "I know that Arthur Brisbane was the greatest journalist of his day".