caption death_date nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
grozier c. 1896 09 may 1924 english september 12 , 1859 file : edwin grozier -lrb- 1859-1924 -rrb- . jpg edwin grozier
 edwin a. grozier newspaper editor and publisher
edwin grozier

edwin atkins grozier -lrb- september 12 , 1859 - may 9 , 1924 -rrb- was a progressive journalist who owned the `` boston post '' from 1891 until his death .
he is reported to have assigned every reporter on the staff to cover the 1911 murder of avis linnell by clarence richeson .
the boston post created a media sensation that ran daily for months until the execution of richeson .
grozier was born at sea near san francisco , his father was a sea captain and native of provincetown , massachusetts .
he graduated from boston university in 1881 , and workeed at both the `` boston herald '' and `` boston globe '' .
he served as governor george d. robinson 's private secretary , and later as private secretary to joseph pulitzer .
he later became the first city editor of the `` new york evening world '' , and later its editor-in-chief .
he took over the `` boston post '' in october 1891 .
he died at his home on brattle street in cambridge on may 9 , 1924 , after having written two editorials that day .
after his death , his son richard succeeded him as editor and publisher of the `` post '' .
richard had been day-to-day head of the paper since 1920 , including when it won a pulitzer prize for meritorious public service after exposing charles ponzi as a fraud .
