Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-19
CHARLES e. HASBROOK,
EDITOR-M MANA GER OF
TIMES DISPATCH, DEAD
Passes Away Peacefully
Last Evening at Home,
LOckslane, Sunnybrook.
FIFTY CROWDED YEARS
IN ACTIVE JOURNALISM
Long and Notable Career as an
American Newspaper Max
er Comes to a Close.

Colonel Charles T.. Hasbrook. editor
and manager of The Times Dispatch,
died at his home, Lockslane. sunny
brook. last evening at $50 o'clock, in
his seven;y-third year. His death was
due to heart failure. lie had been in
Democratic National Convention,
where he served The Timcs-DisDaich ch
with distinction as its chief special
correspondent, and its readers will
recall that his dispatches were timely,
accurate and fun OF information of
special interest to Virginians
Colonel IIasbrook. who was de-
sccnded from the PATRONS Cas- the
old Dutch land owners Of the upper
Hudson in New York were termed),
on his fathers side. and harked back
TO ancestors in Virginia in the distaff
line, was born in Galcsburg. ILL.,. in
ls47.
ncEun Career In Chicago.
He was educated in the local acad-
einy. and In Lombard College in his
native town, later taking the course
in law in the Union Law College. now
known as Northwestern University, in
onei Iasbrook entered newspaper
work. beginning his journalistic car
eer on the staff of the famous Chicago
Inter-Ocean, OF which Melville K.
Stone, the veteran general manager
of the Associated Press. was then
city editor. Tho friendship that be-
gan that day has lasted through all
the years. and it was in those early
t1t ba ha {ptt
mate OF Wilbur storey. Eugene Field
and scores OF other distinguished
journalists who, have passed on.
From Chicago Colonel Hasbrook
went to the Kansas City Times. scrv-
ing as city editor and managing
editor. finally becoming director and
part owner During the sixteen years
OF his service on the Times, in con-
ncc,ion with the late DR.. Mun,ford.
the paper became one of the most
widely quoted in the United States.
and its circulation touched all points
OF the world.
IIonored by Grover Cleveland.
Never a politician in the active
sense of the term. Colonel Hasbrook
throughout his life was n Democrat
OF the Samuel J. Tiltien school. and.
national convention that nominated
Grover Cleveland, he voted for the
New Yorker on every ballot because,
as he said 10 those who tried to dis
suade him, cleveland is OF the Tilden
type and he will win" He did, and
one of his first appointments in the
State of Missouri was that of Has
brook as collector of internal revenue.
The Governor OF Missouri. co-inci-
dentaiiy. recognizing his service in
upbuilding the National Guard. ap-
pointed him member of his military
staff. These were the only political
honors that Colonel Hasbrook could
be induced TO accept. for, on his re-
his first love. journalism, in associa-
ton with Colonel John +. Cockerill,
as manager and publisher OF the
Mo orning Advertiser and Commercial
Advertiser of New York City. Dur
ing more recent years he was head of
hig newspaper properties in Boston,
Minneapolis and Denver. all OF which
he directed with success.
When Colonel IIasbrook took over
the management of The Times Dis
patch, more than six years ago, IL
was in its third generation Of read :.
ers, it's predecessor, The Times. OF
was the outgrowth. having been
founded in the before-the-war period.
Not only have the old prestige and
traditions been maintained, BIZ: rs
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