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Sheriff James McClatchy Deputization Document [138475]

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Sheriff James McClatchy Deputization Document  [138475]
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Know all men by these Presents... A deputization order signed by sheriff James McClatchy, September 1865. James McClatchy, an Irish immigrant who arrived in New York in 1841 at 16, found work at the New York Tribune and later heeded his boss Horace Greeley's legendary advice: "Go West, young man." McClatchy moved to California during the first year of the Gold Rush, in 1849, as a correspondent for the Tribune but soon went to work for two competing Sacramento papers, the Placer Times and the Transcript. By then, so many newspapers had come and gone in Sacramento's early days that the city was known as "the graveyard of newspapers." In 1857, McClatchy helped start a six-day-a-week paper called The Daily Bee. It was four pages and cost 25 cents for a week's subscription. Its office was at 3rd and J streets. McClatchy had other interests and served a two-year stint in the 1860s as Sacramento County sheriff. But in 1866 he cemented his relationship with the newspaper. For $1,800, he bought a one-third stake in the paper.

Date: 1865
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Sacramento
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