Arunah Shepherdson Abell
Arunah Shepherdson Abell (August 10, 1806 – April 19, 1888) was an American publisher and philanthropist. Born in East Providence, Rhode Island, Abell learned the newspaper business as an apprentice at the "Providence Patriot". After stints with newspapers in New York City and Boston, he co-founded the Philadelphia Public Ledger and later founded the "The Sun" of Baltimore on his own. Abell and later his heirs would continue as publisher of "The Sun" until 1910. He is noted as an innovator publisher in the newspaper business, especially in his use of a pony express from New Orleans, being the first news publisher to make use of the telegraph to transmit news from the first Mexican-American War and a President's speech before the Congress in Washington, D.C., and his use of the new rotary/cylinder printing press invented by Richard March Hoe.
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| Birth date | August 10, 1806 |
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| Date of death | April 19, 1888 |
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