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...Philadelphia Inquirer was called the "Bible of Pennsylvania Republicanism" when the Elverson family bought it 45 years ago. Old James Elverson and his son James Jr. successively published it until the son died in 1929. His widow followed him several months later, and control of the Inquirer passed to his sister, Eleanore Elverson Paten...
Last week's buy, the 100-year-old Inquirer, has been in the hands of the Elverson family since 1890. James Elverson, Civil War telegrapher to Secretary of State Seward, made the Inquirer the organ of Pennsylvania Republicanism. So firm was his conviction that employment advertisements increased circulation, that Philadelphians used to say "if you see a man carrying the Inquirer, he's out of work...
...After Elverson Sr.'s death, Col. James Elverson Jr. managed the paper. Last year Col. Elverson died, leaving the property, housed in a big new $10,000,000 plant, to his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Elverson Patenotre, relict of a onetime French Ambassador to the U. S., whose son Raymond is a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Mrs. Patenotre's desire to live near her son was given as a reason for her selling out, for a reputed $18,000,000, to Curtis-Martin...
Died. Col. James Elverson Jr., 59, president and publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, early and ardent Hoover supporter, delegate to the last four Republican National Conventions; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Publisher Elverson was a famed philatelist, yachtsman, clock-collector...