10 Facts About Walter Howey

Walter Howey was the son of Frank Harris Howey and Rosa Crawford Howey.

Walter Howey became a reporter for the Fort Dodge Messenger in 1902 and then worked for the Des Moines Daily Capital before joining Hearst's Chicago American.

Walter Howey became city editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean in 1906 and moved to the Chicago Tribune in 1907.

In 1922, Walter Howey moved to Boston as editor of Hearst's Boston American and then, in 1924, to New York, where in ten days he set up the tabloid New York Daily Mirror.

In 1939, after serving as organizational assistant to Hearst, Walter Howey returned to Boston as editor of the Record-American.

Walter Howey had a glass eye that some attributed to the circulation wars and others to his drunkenly passing out and impaling himself on a copy spike.

In 1931, Walter Howey patented an automatic photoelectric engraving process, and he developed the sound photo system of transmitting photographs by wire.

Walter Howey was critically injured on January 14,1954, in an automobile accident, but he continued to run Hearst's Boston papers until his death, March 21,1954, while recuperating at home in Boston.

Walter Howey is buried in St Michael's Cemetery, Queens, New York.

The second Mrs Walter Howey was a much loved Aunt to her sister's son, Ronald Lawrence Hurwitz, born in 1937 New York.