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Julian Ralph was born on May 27, 1853 in New York City, the son of Dr. Joseph Edward and Salina (Mahoney) Ralph.
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Julian Ralph
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At the age of fifteen he became a printer's apprentice in the office of the Red Bank, New Jersey, Standard. After serving as a reporter on that paper, he attempted to publish a rival newspaper in Red Bank, but the venture failed after a short trial. He then went to Webster, Massachussets, as editor of the Times. On returning to New York in 1872 he was a reporter on the World and later on the Daily Graphic, the first illustrated daily paper in the United States, established in 1873.
His reports of the trial of Henry Ward Beecher in 1875 attracted the attention of Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, who offered him a position as reporter after the trial was over. For the next twenty years Ralph was one of Dana's staff of brilliant writers who helped to make the Sun "the newspaper man's newspaper. " Because of his vivid and picturesque style as a descriptive writer, it was said of him that he "could write five thousand words about a cobblestone. " On the occasion of the funeral of General Grant in 1885, he wrote with a pencil in seven hours an eleven-thousand-word account of the obsequies that filled the front page of the Sun.
He was also credited with an uncanny sixth sense that enabled him to anticipate the breaking of an unexpected piece of important news. His skill as a humorist was shown in his "German Barber" dialect sketches which were a weekly feature of the Sun, and which were published in book form as The Sun's German Barber (1883). While still a member of the Sun staff, he was commissioned by Harper's Magazine to travel through the United States and Canada in the years 1891-93 and to write articles for that publication. These articles were brought together in book form under the titles On Canada's Frontier (1892), Our Great West (1893), and Chicago and the World's Fair (1893).
During the years 1894-97 he traveled through the Far East and Russia and wrote magazine articles based on his observations and experiences. During the Chinese-Japanese War he served as a newspaper correspondent. When in 1895 William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Journal and built up a staff of outstanding newspaper men taken from New York newspapers, he engaged Ralph as his London correspondent.
After war broke out between Greece and Turkey in the spring of 1897, Ralph went to the front for the Journal and followed Osman Pasha in the campaign in Thessaly. He reported the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the coronation of the Czar of Russia for the same paper. Later he became London correspondent for the New York Herald and Brooklyn Eagle. During the Boer War he represented the London Daily Mail, accompanying Lord Roberts in the victorious march to Blomfontein. In the spring of 1900, Ralph with several English war correspondents issued a daily paper at Blomfontein for the British Army, called the Friend, to which Rudyard Kipling and Dr. A. Conan Doyle, both of whom were in South Africa, contributed poems and articles. Ralph on his return to the United States published an account of this novel undertaking, together with the best contributions, under the title, War's Brighter Side; The Story of "The Friend" Newspaper (1901). In 1902 he was appointed Eastern representative of the St. Louis World's Fair.
In addition to the books mentioned, his published works include: Along the Bowstring (1891), Dixie, or Southern Scenes and Sketches (1895), People We Pass; Stories of Life among the Masses of New York City (1896), Alone in China (1897), An Angel in a Web (1899), A Prince of Georgia and Other Tales (1899), Towards Pretoria (1900), At Pretoria, the American edition of which was called An American with Lord Roberts (1901), The Millionairess (1902), and The Making of a Journalist (1903).
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Membership
He had been elected a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1898.
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Ralph was married, in 1876, to Isabella Mount of New Jersey.
