To: RetiredNow who wrote (36710 ) 7/20/2020 9:49:33 PM From: John Vosilla Read Replies (1) | Respond to More on Adolpho Ochs NYTimesedit ]Ochs was born to a Jewish family in Cincinnati , Ohio , on March 12, 1858. His parents, Julius Ochs and Bertha Levy, were both German immigrants. His father had left Bavaria for the United States in 1846. [1] Julius was a highly educated man and fluent in six languages that he taught at schools throughout the South, though he supported the Union during the Civil War . [2] Ochs' mother Bertha, who had come to the United States in 1848 as a refugee from the revolution in Rhenish Bavaria , and had lived in the South before her 1853 marriage with Julius, sympathized with the South, though their differing sympathies didn't separate their household. [3] Knoxville, Tennessee . [3] In Knoxville, Adolph studied in the public schools and during his spare time delivered newspapers. [1] At 11, he went to work at the Knoxville Chronicle as office boy to William Rule , the editor, who became a mentor. [3] In 1871 he was a grocer's clerk at Providence, Rhode Island , attending a night school meanwhile. He then returned to Knoxville, where he was a druggist's apprentice for some time. [4] In 1872, he returned to the Chronicle as a "printer's devil," who looked after various details in the composing room of the paper. [3] Chronicle was the only Republican, pro- Reconstruction , newspaper in the city, but Ochs counted Father Ryan , the Poet-Priest of the Confederacy, among his customers.en.wikipedia.org
