Background
Essary, Jesse Frederick was born on August 22, 1881 in Washburn, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Thurman and Maetta (Hill) Essary.
Essary, Jesse Frederick was born on August 22, 1881 in Washburn, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Thurman and Maetta (Hill) Essary.
Student Emory and Henry College, 1900-1901, Doctor of Laws, 1933. Doctor of Laws from George Washington University, 1935.
Secretary to commissioner of agriculture, Tennessee, 1898. Clerk North.&West. and South.A.L. rys., 1901-1903. Reporter Public Ledger and Norfolk (Virginia) Landmark, 1903-1908.
Financial editor, Baltimore Star, 1908-1909.
Washington correspondent Baltimore News, New Orleans Item and Boston Journal, 1910-1912, Baltimore Sun since 1912. London correspondent Baltimore Sun, 1926.
President National Press Building Corporation since 1931. Secretary Chamber of Commerce, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907, and awarded medal and diploma by Jamestown Exposition.
Secretary Shipping League of Baltimore, 1909.
Secretary Maryland Commission to Seattle Exposition, 1909.
The sole basis for faith is the Bible and it is infallible.
Mason.; Clubs: National Press (president 1928), Gridiron (president 1925), Cosmos (Washington, District of Columbia).
Married Helen Forman Kerchner, September 28, 1910.