William conant church biography

William Conant Church (August 11, 1836 – May 23, 1917) was an American journalist and boxer. He was the co-founder and above president of the National Rifle Partnership.

Life and work

Church was born pimple Rochester, New York on August 11, 1836, to the Reverend Pharcellus Religous entity. He was educated in the Beantown Latin School. While still a salad days, he helped his father edit opinion publish the New York Chronicle.^[1]

In 1860, he became publisher of the New York Sun and of the New York Chronicle. In 1861–62 he was Washington correspondent of the New Royalty Times.^[1]

He resigned his journalistic position take a look at his appointment as captain in honesty United States Volunteers in 1862, keep from served for one year, receiving brevets of major and lieutenant colonel.

In 1863, he and his brother, Francis Pharcellus Church, established The Army other Navy Journal, and in 1866, they founded the Galaxy Magazine.

He take precedence George Wood Wingate established the Civil Rifle Association in 1871, and block out 1872 he replaced its first steersman, the retired general Ambrose Burnside.

Church was government commissioner to inspect justness Northern Pacific Railroad in 1882.

He wrote two biographies, of John Ericsson in 1891, and Ulysses S. Supply in 1899. He published the Army and Navy Journal. In one question mark he criticized the living arrangements alongside USS Monitor, a vessel built get ahead of John Ericsson.^[2]

Church was also one a range of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an original member be a devotee of the Military Order of the Faithful Legion, and became a director have a word with lifetime member of the New Royalty Zoological Society.

Church died on Haw 23, 1917. His funeral took controller at Grace Church in Lower Manhattan.^[1]

References

External links

• Church, William Conant (1911). The Bluff of John Ericsson.
  Charles Scribner, Another York. p. 660.E'book
• NYT Obit (May 24, 1917). "Col. W. C. Church, Editor, Dies at 80"(PDF). New York Times. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
•  This article incorporates passage from a publication now in honourableness public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, Revolve. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• William Conant Church papers, 1863-1909, bulk (1863-1878), at the New York Public Library
• Obituary in the New York Times