Person:Ogden Reid (1)

Editor, owner and publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, Reid grew up in New York City in a wealthy, aristocratic family, his father being U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Prior to entering Yale, Reid studied at the University of Bonn in Germany. He graduated from Yale in 1904 and went on to earn his law degree in 1907, after which he went to work for his father, at what was then the New York Tribune. His father died in 1912 in England and as a result Reid became editor of the Tribune. In 1924, Reid purchased the New York Herald, combining it with the Tribune, to form the New York Herald Tribune. The start was slow for the newspaper, requiring almost eight years to turn a profit, but under his leadership the circulation of the Tribune grew enormously, and as a result a large foreign staff was established in Paris. In the early 1920s, Reid bought a house at 4 Rue de Chevreuse in Paris; it was there that he spent the majority of his time and conducted much of the business of the newspaper.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Ogden Mills Reid, in Find A Grave.