Career
Mr. Haldeman founded the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper. Which is still in circulation and currently owned by the Gannett Company. Although a force in 19th Century United States. newspaper business, Mr.
Haldeman shied away from the spotlight, as a New York Times article from May 14, 1902 described him as "a man of unusual force of character, but remarkably modest, so that he resented any form of publicity about himself".
Thus providing the spotlight for the Courier-Journal editor, Henry Watterson. Walter North. Haldeman was the son of John Haldeman and Elizabeth Newman, and was born in Maysville, Kentucky where he spent his childhood years.
He attended Maysville Academy with future prominent Americans" Ulysses South. Grant, William H. Wadsworth, Thomas H. Nelson, and William "Bulletin" Nelson under the tutelage of Professor William A. Richardson. At age 16 Mr. Haldeman moved with his family to Louisville, Kentucky where he worked in a grocery store and commission house.
In 1840 Mr. Haldeman started his newspaper career in a clerical position at the Louisville Journal, but within a few years he had opened his own bookstore and print shop.