June 2, 2023
Located in the Press Room, room 107.
Whitelaw Reid
1837-1912
Briefly told:
He began as editor of a weekly newspaper in Xenia.
He covered this State House and the 54th General Assembly for three newspapers in 1861.
He won fame as a Civil War correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette and as the historian of "Ohio in the War."
He succeeded Horace Greeley as editor and publisher of the New York Tribune.
Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association
1961