1. Joseph Cookman was an American journalist, critic and a founder of The Newspaper Guild.
14 Facts About Joseph Cookman
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Joe Cookman was retrieved from the orphanage and went to live with his mother and sister Grace in New York.
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Joseph Cookman graduated from a one-room school house in rural Fillmore.
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Joseph Cookman went on to study at Houghton College before joining the Army, going through officer training school at Smoky Hill Flats, Kansas, and serving in World War I as a Lieutenant in the infantry.
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Joseph Cookman shared an apartment with his sister Grace who had become a nurse.
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On November 26,1928, Joseph Cookman married Mary Carter Carson, daughter of James Carson a former chairman of the Colonial Trust Company.
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Joseph Cookman was known professionally as Mary Bass for most of her career.
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Joseph Cookman eventually was named executive editor and worked with the Goulds at Ladies Home Journal for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1963.
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Joseph Cookman was offered a job as the drama critic for the Bronx Home News.
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Joseph Cookman joined the New York Evening Post in 1925 as a reporter and later as assistant city editor.
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Joseph Cookman eventually became the paper's Chief Editorial Writer and worked at the Post until his death in 1944.
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Joseph Cookman's work was listed in The Mammoth Book of Journalism: 101 Masterpieces from the Finest Writers and Reporters.
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Joseph Cookman was present, witnessed and reported on the 1935 execution of murderer Eva Coo at Sing Sing Prison.
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Joseph Cookman died in his home August 12,1944 of a heart ailment.