1. Edwin Atkins Grozier was an American journalist, publisher and author, who owned The Boston Post from 1891 until his death.
17 Facts About Edwin Grozier
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Edwin Grozier authored the book, "The Wreck of the 'Somerset,'" first published in the New York World, May 1886.
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Edwin Grozier graduated from Boston University in 1881, and worked at both the Boston Herald and The Boston Globe.
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Edwin Grozier served as Governor George D Robinson's private secretary, and later as private secretary to Joseph Pulitzer.
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Edwin Grozier later became the first city editor of the New York Evening World, and later its editor-in-chief.
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Edwin Grozier took over The Boston Post in October 1891.
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Edwin Grozier attended high school in Provincetown, and attended Chauncy Hall school of Boston.
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Edwin Grozier studied at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Boston University in 1881, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.
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Edwin Grozier married Alice Goodell, native of Salem, Massachusetts, on November 26,1885.
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Edwin Grozier was a member of numerous clubs and organizations, including the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Fellowcraft of New York, and the Belfry of Lexington.
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Edwin Grozier then spent a year, serving as Governor George D Robinson's private secretary.
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Edwin Grozier returned to the newsbusiness in 1885, as private secretary to Joseph Pulitzer, and later as city editor of the New York World, and managing editor of The Evening World and the Sunday World.
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However, in less than 25-years, Edwin Grozier grew the paper into the largest circulation morning newspaper in the country.
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In 1909, Edwin Grozier launched a public relations campaign aimed at increasing readership.
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Edwin Grozier purchased 700 walking canes, and sent them out to 700 New England towns where the Post was published.
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In 1920, under the leadership of his son, Richard Edwin Grozier, who had been day-to-day head of the paper since 1920, the Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service after exposing Charles Ponzi as a fraud.
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Edwin Grozier died at his home on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 9,1924, after having written two editorials that day.