Arunah Shepherdson Abell
Businessperson, Deceased Person
1806 – 1888
Who was Arunah Shepherdson Abell?
Arunah Shepherdson Abell was an American publisher and philanthropist. Born in 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 Baltimore Sun on his own. Abell and later his heirs would continue as publisher of the Sun until 1910. He is noted as an innovator in the newspaper business, especially in his use of a pony express from New Orleans, being the first newsman to make use of the telegraph to transmit news, and his use of the cylinder printing press invented by Richard March Hoe.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1806
East Providence - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Baltimore
- Providence
- Died
- Apr 19, 1888
Baltimore
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on July 23, 2013
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