Background
WELLS, Samuel Calvin was born on November 20, 1849 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Reverend Samuel T. Wells, Presbyterian minister. Spent boyhood in Pennsylvania, Iowa, and California.
WELLS, Samuel Calvin was born on November 20, 1849 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Reverend Samuel T. Wells, Presbyterian minister. Spent boyhood in Pennsylvania, Iowa, and California.
Spent boyhood in Pennsylvania, Iowa and California. Princeton University, 1869-1873.
Admitted to Pittsburg Bar, 1876, and Philadelphia several years later. Joined editorial statf of Philadelphia Press, 1879. Has been an editorial writer on that paper continuously since that time.
Editor-in-chief, 1890-1892 and 1898- 1902, and since 1908. Journalist.
Married Virginia C. Haines, of Philadelphia, October 5, 1887.