[1] He was a political supporter of his friend and neighbor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune.
[2] He also worked for Manton Marble at the New York World.
[3] He wrote a biography of Millard Fillmore.
[1] When he went from the World to the Herald in 1876, he was very highly paid for an editorial writer.
[5] He was part of a small group of highly influential writers at the World involved in Democratic Party politics.