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Note: Moses Annenberg, born in an East Prussian village, had immigrated to the United States as a child and was reared in poverty in Chicago. He peddled groceries and newspapers, and he swept livery stables as a boy. When he was a young man, he joined the circulation department of the Hearst newspapers, and he was a soldier in Chicago's fierce and often bloody newspaper circulation wars of the 1920s. Later, he went into business for himself, gaining control of the horse-racing wire that sent results from the tracks to bookmakers across the country, and he acquired the Daily Racing Form and the Morning Telegraph, the two most authoritative and widely read racing publications. He bought the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1936.
Moses Annenberg's Inquirer lent editorial support to Republican political candidates, and the newspaper became a bitter critic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
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1930 Census list the following non-family members living in the household.
Julia Sarsfield, age 21, b. Ireland, maid
Peggy Borden, age 27, b. Free State Ireland, maid
Lixer? Sweeney, age 53, b. Free State Ireland, maid
Hoerper Lucy Lunds, age 41, b. Germany, cook
Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 Record
about MOSES LOUIS ANNENBERG
Name: MOSES LOUIS ANNENBERG
Death Date: 07/20/1942 00:00:00
Death Place: OLMSTED
State File Number: 010339
Part of an article published by the Chronical Telegram(Elyria, Ohio) Aug. 11, 1939.
Moses Lois Annenberg began his career as a newsboy in Chicago and in sixty
years has acquired a fortune so large that he was able to pay $15,000 cash when
he purchased the Philadelphia Inquirer three years ago. He was circulation manager
for the Hearst Chicago Examiner in 1904 when the newspaper was engaged in a
circulation war.
Annenberg is owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, radio and movie fan magazines, and the Nation Wide News Service, which supplies horse racing information.
circulation war. (Quoted in other newspaper accounts...He was the biggest dis-
tributor of racing information the world has ever know.)
Newspaper Obituary from the Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) Shown here
in part.
Rochester, MN..July 21st, 1942...
M.L. Annenberg, 64, a Russian Immigrant who became publisher of the Philadelphia
Inquirer and half-a-dozen other newspapers and magazines and organizer of
horse racing news, died at St. Mary's Hospital last night.
With him in his last hours were his wife, his son Walter and seven daughters.
He published the Daily Racing Form, The New York Morning Telegraph, owned
Nationwide News Service, now disbanded, published The Massillon, O. Independent,
a number of magazines, including Screen Guide, Radio and Movie Guide, Click and various detective magazines, and founded the Miami Florida Tribune which he later
sold to the Knight chain for merging with the Miami Herald. His biggest publishing
enterprise was the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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On July 31, 1936, Moses Annenberg announced that he had purchased the Inquirer for four million dollars and assumption of $6.8 million dollars in debt. Many sources had placed the purchase price at $15,000,000. Some even said that Moses paid in cash with the money carried in two suitcases. The Annenbergs have always denied the $15 million price and the cash payment. Moses added a slogan to the paper's masthead, "An independent newspaper for all the people."
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