Joseph Medill Patterson

Business Positions

New York Daily News New York Newspaper Company

• Publisher ('19→'46)*

In the office of

Eugene V Debs Labor leader ran for President five times

• campaign aide ('08)

Memberships

Scroll and Key Secret Yale organization

• Member

Family

Eleanor Josephine Medill Patterson First female newspaper publisher

• sister ('81→?)

Robert R McCormick Owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper; Xenophobe

• cousin

Joseph Medill Editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune newspaper

• grandfather ('79→?)

Robert Wilson Patterson Jr Chicago Tribune publisher

• father ('79→?)

Alice Higinbotham Department store heiress

• wife ('02→'38)*

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright Heir to the Medill and McCormick newspaper fortunes

• grandson

Alicia Patterson Founder and editor of Newsday

• daughter ('06→?)

Schools

The Groton School Private school in Groton, MA

• High School

Yale University Private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut - founded in 1701

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'01)