Muckraker: Julius Chambers

A muckraker is a reporter or writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports involving a host of social issues, broadly including crime and corruption and often involving elected officials, political leaders and influential members of business and industry.

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The muckraker I chose was Julius Chambers primarily because he was the first person I saw and the topic he wrote about seemed interesting to me.  Julius Chambers was an American author, editor, journalist, travel writer and a activist against psychiatric abuse, he was considered by many people the orginial muckraker who undertook the journalistic investigation of Bloomingdale Asylum in 1872.  He was born November 21, 1850 and died February 12, 1920.  His hometown was Bellefontaine Ohio where he lived with his parent Joseph and Sarabella Chambers, Julius made up his mind on his career to become a journalist when he was only eleven years old and spent his summer vacation working in a newspaper office.  During his education process he went to Wesleyan Universtity then later Cornell and after graduating in 1870 he studied law with Attorney General Brewster in Philadelphia at Columbia College Law School.  After his studies in Philidelphia Julius went to New York where he joined the "New York Herald" and became the foreign correspondent for the paper for fifteen years, in 1887 his editor and chief sent him to Paris to start the "Paris Herald."  From 1889 to 1891 after the invitation of Joseph Pulitzer, Chambers was the managing editor of the "New York World." In 1890 both Joseph Pulitzer and Julius were indicated for accusing Alexander T. Stewart of "a dark and secret crime," as the man who "invited guests to meet his mistresses at his table and as a pirate of the dry goods ocean," the charges were later dropped by the court though. 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Chambers,  ^{a b} Who's who in New York (1905) L.R. Hamersley Co., New York