Background
Mahoney, Edward R. was born on July 18, 1881 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of George Richard and Katherine Allan (Coughlin) Mahoney.
Mahoney, Edward R. was born on July 18, 1881 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of George Richard and Katherine Allan (Coughlin) Mahoney.
Education high school and Spencerian College, Milwaukee. Student Webster College of Law, Chicago, Bachelor of Laws, 1920. Admitted to Illinois bar, 1920.
Reporter Milwaukee Sentinel, 1902-1904. Night city editor Chicago Examiner, 1904-1907. Assistant city editor Inter-Ocean, Chicago, 1907-1910.
City editor Chicago Journal, 2 years, Chicago American, 5 years.
Later managing editor Boston American, Boston Daily Advertiser and Boston Sunday Advertiser until 1929. Associate editor New York Journal, 1929-1933.
Editor Wisconsin News, 1933. Secretary Milwaukee Public Company.
Secretary Wisconsin News Company Chief of Efficiency Bureau Civil Service communications of Cook Company, Illinois, 1911-1912.
Comptroller Sanitary District of Chicago, 1913-1915. President Northeastern Public Company, Boston, 1926-1927. Colonel aide-de-camp to commander in chief Wisconsin National Guard.
Mason, Elk, Moose.
Married Blanche Ramsay Young, 1921.