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- Edward Scripps, 88, Who Built A Chain of Mostly Small Papers
Published: September 13, 1997, New York Times
Edward Wyllis Scripps, a newspaper executive and philanthropist who built a publishing company independent of his family's newspaper empire, died on Sept. 4 at his farm in Charlottesville, Va. He was 88.
Mr. Scripps was the chairman and president of the Scripps League Newspapers from 1931 to 1996. According to Jack Morgan, the former vice president of the newspaper chain, it was started in 1921 by Josephine Scripps, Mr. Scripps's mother.
When Mr. Scripps became president in 1931, there were eight newspapers. He built the chain to 51 publications, mostly small newspapers like The Daily Herald of Provo, Utah; The Napa Valley Register of Napa, Calif.; The Newport Daily Express of Newport, Vt., and The Hanford Sentinel of Hanford, Calif. It also included The Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff, Ariz.
Scripps League Newspapers was bought by the Pulitzer Publishing Company in 1996.
Born in San Diego, Mr. Scripps was the grandson of Edward Wyllis Scripps, the founder of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper empire and United Press International. He served on the board of the Inter-American Press Association and was a president of its technical center, from 1955 until 1970.
In 1984, Mr. Scripps and his wife, Betty, established the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Foundation. Among the organizations it has supported are the American Red Cross; the Thomas Jefferson Foundation; the Santa Fe Opera; the Mayo Clinic, and the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif.
In 1994, Mr. Scripps and his wife established the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Professorship of Medicine at the Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minn.
Mr. Scripps attended Pomona College and married Betty Jeanne Knight McDonnell on Jan. 30, 1950. In addition to his wife, Mr. Scripps is survived by two sons, Edward Wyllis Scripps 3d of Los Altos, Calif., and Barry Howard Scripps of San Diego; a daughter, Stephanie Anne Scripps of Seattle; a sister, Ellen Scripps Davis of San Diego, and seven grandchildren.
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From Deseret News archives:
Sons of publishing magnate want their dad's will revoked
Published: Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1998 12:00 a.m. MST
The sons of the late publishing magnate Edward Wyllis Scripps have asked a judge to revoke the will of their father.
In a filing last week, Barry and Edward W. Scripps III claim their mother coerced their father into cutting them out of his $214 million estate. They said the former head of Scripps League Newspapers was not competent when he approved changes that left them nothing.Scripps, who died in September at age 88, gave his entire estate to his wife, Betty Knight Scripps, and a private foundation in the couple's name.
Lawyers for Betty Scripps said her sons have no grounds to contest the June 1996 will because they would not have benefited from three previous wills and codicils her husband signed.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/609739/Sons-of-publishing-magnate-want-their-dads-will-revoked.html
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From Deseret News archives:
Publisher's granddaughter dies in San Diego house fire
Published: Monday, Feb. 9, 1998 12:00 a.m. MST
The granddaughter of publishing magnate Edward Wyllis Scripps and her husband died when fire spread through their turn-of-the century home just north of San Diego.
Ellen Scripps Davis, 84, was pulled from the bedroom of her burning home early Sunday by employees who lived at the Scripps Ranch, sheriff's officials said. She was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital burn center.Paramedics were unable to revive her husband, Everett Conley Davis, 87, who was found in a bathroom near the bedroom.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
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