Manton Marble (1835-1917)

He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. After spending seven years on the staff of various newspapers in Boston and New York, in 1862 he bought The New York World, for which he'd worked between 1858 and 1860. He became famously engaged in a controversy with President Lincoln which saw the World temporarily suspended from publication. In 1872, the World vigorously opposed Horace Greeley's presidential campaign, and Marble retired from his editorial position in 1876. In 1885, President Cleveland sent him to the British, French and German governments as a special envoy to discuss the subject of international bimetallism. On his return, after conferences with various European authorities, he advised the President that upon the co-operation of the United Kingdom, for which neither Tory nor Liberal leaders were prepared, depended the German and French resumption of free bimetallic coinage, and advised that the States should stop buying silver. He was the first member of the Union Club to represent the daily press. He co-founded and served as President of the Manhattan Club, and at his death he was a member of the Century Association, the Round Table, the Metropolitan Club, and an honorary member of the Cobden Club. He spent the last twenty years of his life in England, and died at at Allington Castle, Kent, the home of his stepdaughter's husband, Lord Conway. He married twice and had two children and one stepdaughter.