CLOSE OF A LETTER SIGNED BY AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER AND EDITOR HERMAN RIDDER. by Ridder, Herman. (1851-1915). American newspaper publisher and editor - [1900].

Circa [1900]., [1900].. Good. - "Yours faithfully" is typed in blue ink on a slip of paper 1-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Boldly signed in black ink: "Herman Ridder". The top edge of the paper is slightly unevenly cut & there is a small, light stain at bottom left. Good. <p>Herman Ridder [1851-1915] was born in New York City of German Catholic parents. He established the Katholisches Volksblatt in 1878 and the Catholic News in 1886. In 1890 he became trustee and manager and in 1907 president of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, then the largest and most influential German-language newspaper in the United States. He came into conflict with the Federal authorities after the outbreak of World War I, charged with having carried on an alleged pro-German campaign in his newspapers. He died insolvent, having lost his means with the failure of the International Typesetting Machine Company at the start of the war.