Note 892 — Chapter XXXII · JOHN KELLY ELECTS CORNELL 1879

After service on the New York World, and the Brooklyn Eagle, McKelway became chief editor of the Argus in 1878. He rejoined the Eagle in 1885. Among other accomplished editors who made their journals conspicuous in party (Democratic) and State from 1865 to 1880, may be mentioned William Cassidy, Albany Argus; Thomas Kinsella, Brooklyn Eagle; Joseph Warren and David Gray, Buffalo Courier; Samuel M. Shaw, Cooperstown Freeman's Journal; James and Erastus Brooks, New York Express; Benjamin Wood, New York News; Manton Marble and Joseph Pulitzer, New York World; William Purcell, Rochester Union-Advertiser; Henry A. Reeves, Greenport Republican Watchman; E. Prentiss Bailey, Utica Observer. Although previously of Democratic tendencies, the New York Herald, by 1865, had become wholly independent.