Pulitzer
JOSEPH, an American journalist; born in Budapest, Hungary, April 10, 1847. When quite young he came to the United States; served in the Civil War; and found a home in St.
Louis, Mo. He began journalism as reporter on the "Westliche Post," of which he afterward became editor and chief proprietor. He was well known in that city as a politician, legislator and Con- In 1878 he 1883 purchased the New York "World." of the St. Louis "Post-Dispatch," and in Columbia University (1903) and gave He endowed a School of Journalism at Columbia University (1903) and gave large sums for educational and philanthropic purposes. He died in 1911. servatory (lat. 59° 46' 18" N. and lon. miles S. of the site of a magnificent observatory (lat. 59° 46′ 18" N. and lon. servatory," built by the Czar Nicholas in 1838-1839. In 1882 one of the largest telescopes in the world was erected here.
Besides being one of the largest institutions for original research in the world, it is also a school for the training of asthe largest refracting telescope in the the largest refracting telescope in the world, except the 36-inch Li control PULMOTOR cago; studied for many years the prob- the cabinetmaker's trade; settled in Chicago; studied for many years the problem of making journeys by rail more the Pullman palace car. In 1863 he comfortable; and as a result invented the Pullman palace car. started building these cars, and in 1867 In 1863 he organized the Pullman Palace Car Comtrain and founded the town of Pullman, pany. He also invented the vestibule Ill., in 1880. He died in Chicago, Oct. 19, 1897. gastropod mollusks (also called by some