Background
Eddie Doherty was born in Chicago in 1890, the oldest of ten children in an Irish Catholic family born to Police Lieutenant Edward Doherty and his wife Ellen Rodgers.
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Eddie Doherty was born in Chicago in 1890, the oldest of ten children in an Irish Catholic family born to Police Lieutenant Edward Doherty and his wife Ellen Rodgers.
Education public and parochial schools, Chicago, Saint Philip’s Academy, Granville, Wisconsin.
At the age of 13 he entered a Servite monastery in Wisconsin. After two years he left the seminary, returned to Chicago, and went to work at the City Press. Starting as a newspaper copy boy, Eddie worked at various other Chicago newspapers, including the Examiner, the Record-Herald, the Tribune, the Herald, and the American.
lieutenant was at the American that he began writing columns.
In his sorrow, Eddie Doherty left the Church. Eddie had a second son, Jack Jim.
Back at the Tribune, he helped establish the Joseph Medill School of Journalism. He "made his reputation initially covering such scandals as the Wally Reid case and the Fatty Arbuckle trial".
The News" trucks and billboards proclaimed him "The Star Reporter of America".
The Mirror, "billed him as America"s Highest Paid Reporter". In 1939, disaster struck once again, as Mildred died in a freak accident (from a fall) while out for a walk alone. Their friendship turned to romance, and they wed on June 25, 1943.
Meanwhile, the staff at Friendship House did not take well to Catherine"s marriage to Eddie, and complained that Catherine no longer lived in celibacy as they were required to do.
This and other differences eventually led to Eddie and Catherine moving to Combermere, Ontario, Canada and starting a new apostolate called Madonna House in 1947. Here they founded their own newspaper, Restoration, which has remained in continuous circulation.
In 1975, after a period of ill-health and surgery, Eddie slipped into a coma. He died the next day, on May 4, 1975.
A simple wooden cross marks his grave, reading "All my words for the Word.".
Member of staff New York Daily News, formerly city editor New York American.
Married Marie Ryan, December 15, 1914 (deceased. Married second, Mildred Frisby, July 16, 1919 (deceased. Married 3d, Baroness Catherine de Hueck, June 25, 1943.