Brush-Moore Newspapers
American newspaper group
Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. was a United States newspaper group based in Ohio. It was founded by Louis H. Brush, Roy D. Moore and William H. Vodrey in 1927, four years after Brush and Moore purchased The Marion Star from US president Warren G. Harding. The business acquired a number of newspapers and radio stations from both Ohio and other US states during its 40 years of existence. Brush-Moore Newspapers' 72-million-dollar sale to Thomson Newspapers in 1967 was at the time the most expensive newspaper transaction in history.
Background
Louis Herbert Brush was born in 1872 in Alliance, Ohio. He graduated from Mount Union College with a bachelor's degree in arts. Before he founded Brush-Moore Newspapers he had owned the Liverpool Review and the East Liverpool Tribune, which he acquired respectively in 1901 and 1920. He joined the Salem News (of Salem, Ohio) as a manager in 1894 and purchased it in 1897.
Roy Donald Moore was born in 1888 in McArthur, Ohio and grew up on a farm.
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