David Croly

January 3, 1829 (age 60)

Cloghnakilty, County Cork, Ireland

For a time he was apprenticed to a silversmith. In 1855 he became a reporter on the New York Evening Post, receiving a salary of eight dollars a week. After a short time he took charge of the city intelligence department of the Herald, which position he held until 1858, In that year, with his wife, he moved to Rockford, and started the Daily News. The investment was not profitable financially, but both Croly and his wife were highly regarded in the community, and various persons offered money to keep the paper in existence. Their offers were declined, however; Croly returned to New York in 1860 and became first city editor and then (1862 - 72) managing editor of the World. In 1868 Croly and C. W. Sweet founded the Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide, the former being joint owner and manager until 1873. Then Croly became editor of the Daily Graphic, a new illustrated paper. He resigned in 1878 because the owners interfered with his editorial management. He published (1868), Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Sendees, a campaign biography of the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president. In 1872 Truth, an attempt to explain the merits of the Oneida Community, was published. The following year Croly started a new magazine, The Modern Thinker, which he explained was not a monthly, nor a quarterly, but a periodical with no assured periodicity. A strange typographical make-up was employed, each article being printed on paper of a different color with type of various sizes and ink of various tints to match the paper. Three issues appeared. Another book, Glimpses of the Future, dealing with suggestions as to the drift of things, was published in 1888. In 1871 he published a Primer of Positivism.

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(A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity) Author: David Goodman Croly published on (January, 2010)

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A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity - Primary Source Edition

(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro.

(This volume is produced from digital images from the Corn...)

Glimpses Of The Future : Suggestions As To The Drift Of Things

(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction Volume 2

(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions As to the Drift of Things (Classic Reprint)

(The author of this work was fortunate enough to predict i...)

A 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE POSITIVIST JOURNALIST DAVID GOODMAN CROLY, Addressed to the American Philosopher and Historian JOHN FISKE.

Seymour and Blair

(Seymour and Blair. Their lives and services. With an appe...)

A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity

(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Services: With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction

(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

Miscegenation; The Theory Of The Blending Of The Races, Applied To The American White Man And Negro

David Goodman Croly

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Background

David Goodman Croly was born on November 3, 1829 in Cloghnakilty, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Patrick and Elizabeth Croly. He came to America when a very small boy and grew up in New York City.

Education

He went to the University of the City of New York for one year, and received a special course diploma in 1854.

Career

For a time he was apprenticed to a silversmith.

In 1855 he became a reporter on the New York Evening Post, receiving a salary of eight dollars a week. After a short time he took charge of the city intelligence department of the Herald, which position he held until 1858, In that year, with his wife, he moved to Rockford, and started the Daily News.

The investment was not profitable financially, but both Croly and his wife were highly regarded in the community, and various persons offered money to keep the paper in existence.

Their offers were declined, however; Croly returned to New York in 1860 and became first city editor and then (1862 - 72) managing editor of the World. In 1868 Croly and C. W. Sweet founded the Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide, the former being joint owner and manager until 1873.

Then Croly became editor of the Daily Graphic, a new illustrated paper. He resigned in 1878 because the owners interfered with his editorial management.

He published (1868), Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Sendees, a campaign biography of the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president.

In 1872 Truth, an attempt to explain the merits of the Oneida Community, was published. The following year Croly started a new magazine, The Modern Thinker, which he explained was not a monthly, nor a quarterly, but a periodical with no assured periodicity. A strange typographical make-up was employed, each article being printed on paper of a different color with type of various sizes and ink of various tints to match the paper. Three issues appeared.

Another book, Glimpses of the Future, dealing with suggestions as to the drift of things, was published in 1888.

In 1871 he published a Primer of Positivism.

Achievements

Croly's published works include Seymour and Blair: Their Lives and Services (1868), about the 19th century politicians Horatio Seymour and Montgomery Blair (which included an appendix containing a "History of Reconstruction"); and a Primer of Positivism (1876).

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(A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity) Author: David Goodman Croly published on (January, 2010) (A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity) Author: David Goodman Croly published on (January, 2010)

A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity - Primary Source Edition A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity - Primary Source Edition

Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro. Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro.

Glimpses Of The Future : Suggestions As To The Drift Of Things Glimpses Of The Future : Suggestions As To The Drift Of Things

Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction Volume 2 Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction Volume 2

Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions As to the Drift of Things (Classic Reprint) Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions As to the Drift of Things (Classic Reprint)

A 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE POSITIVIST JOURNALIST DAVID GOODMAN CROLY, Addressed to the American Philosopher and Historian JOHN FISKE. A 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE POSITIVIST JOURNALIST DAVID GOODMAN CROLY, Addressed to the American Philosopher and Historian JOHN FISKE.

A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity

Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Services: With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Services: With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction

book
- Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions As to the Drift of Things (Classic Reprint)
  (The author of this work was fortunate enough to predict i...)
- Glimpses Of The Future : Suggestions As To The Drift Of Things
  (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
- Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction Volume 2
  (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
- A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity
  (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
- Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Services: With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction
  (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
- Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro.
  (This volume is produced from digital images from the Corn...)
- A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity - Primary Source Edition
  (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
- (A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity) Author: David Goodman Croly published on (January, 2010)
  (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Seymour and Blair
  (Seymour and Blair. Their lives and services. With an appe...)
- Miscegenation; The Theory Of The Blending Of The Races, Applied To The American White Man And Negro
- A 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE POSITIVIST JOURNALIST DAVID GOODMAN CROLY, Addressed to the American Philosopher and Historian JOHN FISKE.

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Quotations: He was the principal author of a book, Miscegenation (1864), in which he stated: “All that is needed to make us the finest race on earth is to engraft upon our stock the negro element which providence has placed by our side on this continent. We must become a yellow-skinned, black-haired people, if we would attain the fullest results of civilization. ”

Personality

He was an independent, fearless person who disliked the obvious way of saying or doing a thing and accordingly cultivated the unexpected almost to a fault.

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Philosophers & Thinkers

One of Croly’s chief interests was Auguste Comte’s theory of Positivism, a philosophy which he did his best to introduce into the United States.

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His wife was Jane Cunningham Croly, also a journalist, whom he had married in 1857.

Father:: Patrick Croly
Mother:: Elizabeth Croly
Wife:: Cunningham Croly
Son:: Herbert Croly

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book

(A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity) Author: David Goodman Croly published on (January, 2010)

A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity - Primary Source Edition

Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro.

Glimpses Of The Future : Suggestions As To The Drift Of Things

Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction Volume 2

Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions As to the Drift of Things (Classic Reprint)

A 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE POSITIVIST JOURNALIST DAVID GOODMAN CROLY, Addressed to the American Philosopher and Historian JOHN FISKE.

Seymour and Blair

A Positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations On the Religion of Humanity

Seymour and Blair, Their Lives and Services: With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction

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