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Collection Summary
Collection: FND005 - SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 00054
Title: George Winship
Date: 1933
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Summary: George B. Winship (1847-1931) became one of the Hall of Fame's first two members when he was elected with Norman Black in 1933 Winship, founder of the Grand Forks Herald, settled in Sauk Centre, Minn., after leaving the Union forces in 1866. After working as a printer in the Red River Valley for eight years, he established a newspaper in Caledonia, Minn., in 1876. Three years later he moved his paper to Grand Forks as the Grand Forks Weekly Herald, outliving several competing newspapers. The Herald was converted to a daily in 1881. Winship served as president of the North Dakota Press Association in 1895, and was elected a state senator in 1889. He later served as State Oil Inspector and Register of the Federal Land Office. In the early years of statehood he carried he fight against the political machine that was dominating North Dakota. Seeing his fortune swept away in the panic of 1893, Winship re-established and built the largest printing house in the state before retiring in 1911.
Red ID: FND_I_77494 Image ID: 509313 Image Notes: 10950 00005 00054

Collection: FND005 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
Date:

Summary: The Hall of Honors features the biographies of recognized leaders in North Dakota's newspaper industry. This resource is sponsored by the North Dakota Newspaper Association and the NDNA Education Foundation.

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