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James Edmund was born on March 19, 1835 in London, England, United Kingdom, son of James Mogg Scripps and his second wife, Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps. His grandfather had been the publisher in London of the Sun and of the Literary Gazette, and editor and publisher of the True Briton. His father, a bookbinder, emigrated to the United States in 1844 and settled on a farm near Rushville, Illinois. There James grew up.
James Edmund went to a district school of Rushville. Later he attended a Chicago business college.
James Edmund Scripps worked in Chicag for a time as a bookkeeper. In 1857 he began his newspaper career as a reporter on the Democratic Press, published by his cousin, John Locke Scripps, which was merged in 1858 with the Chicago Daily Tribune.
In 1859 he became commercial editor of the Detroit Daily Advertiser; two years later he was part owner of the paper, and in 1862, when it was merged with the Detroit Tribune, he retained his interest and was made first business manager and then editor of the combined papers.
On August 23, 1873, he launched the Evening News, a two-cent, four-page daily paper, independent in politics, printed for a time on the press of the Detroit Free Press. When, despite the panic of 1873, he decided to set up a printing plant of his own, he obtained additional capital from his brother, George H. Scripps, and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps, who also joined the editorial staff. Within a year the little two-cent Evening News had secured twice as large a circulation as any of its five-cent rivals. Although Scripps's original intention seems to have been to publish a paper modeled on the Springfield Republican and the New York Evening Post, the news staff that he employed actually produced a much livelier and more popular little news sheet that appealed to working men and their wives.
In 1878, with his brother George H. Scripps and their cousin, John Scripps Sweeney, he lent about $10, 000 to his half-brother Edward Wyllis Scripps, who had helped to build up the circulation of the Evening News and was now about to start a one-cent evening paper in Cleveland, Ohio. This was the Penny Press, later the Cleveland Press. Later he joined Edward in establishing two more papers: in 1880 the Evening Chronicle in St. Louis, a two-cent paper, which in 1887 became the first penny paper west of the Mississippi River; and a year or two later the Cincinnati Penny Post, later the Cincinnati Post, in which he had previously invested.
In 1891 he entered the morning newspaper field in Detroit by purchasing the Detroit Tribune, which he continued as a morning paper. When the agitation for Free Silver began in the nineties, he espoused the cause of William Jennings Bryan in both his Detroit papers. His advocacy of Free Silver and Bryan in 1896 cost both papers heavily in patronage, and after McKinley's election he returned to the Republican party. In 1902 he was elected to the Michigan state Senate as an advocate of home rule for municipalities.
He served on the commission of the Detroit Museum of Art (later the Detroit Institute of Arts) and contributed to it both money and paintings that he collected on his trips abroad.
He died in Detroit.
James Edmund Scripps launched a newspaper, The Evening News (later, The Detroit News), it became the pioneer among the small, cheap evening papers that developed in the Middle West during the seventies and eighties. Besides, he with his brother and sister established Cleveland Press, Evening Chronicle, Cincinnati Post, which formed the first chain of daily newspapers in the United States. His famous books: Five Months Abroad (1881), Memorials of the Scripps Family (1891), A genealogical history of the Scripps Family and its various alliances (1903).
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Scripps was a stanch Republican.
On September 16, 1862, Scripps was married to Harriet Josephine Messinger of Peru, Vermont.
