Walter Newman Haldeman

Walter Newman Haldeman was born on April 27, 1821, in Maysville, Kentucky, to Elizabeth and John Haldeman. He spent his childhood years in Maysville and attended Maysville Academy with future prominent Americans' Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Wadsworth, Thomas H. Nelson, and William "Bull" Nelson under the tutelage of Professor William A. Richardson. At age 16, Haldeman moved with his family to Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked in a grocery store called Rogers & Dunham and commission house. In 1840, Haldeman started his newspaper career in a clerical position at the Louisville Journal, but within a few years he had opened his own bookstore and print shop. ==Career==

In 1843, Haldeman started the publication of a small newspaper called the Daily Dime. Haldeman renamed the newspaper in 1844 to the Louisville Courier. After the war, in 1868, the Courier merged with its cross-town rival—the pro-Union Louisville Journal—to form the Louisville Courier-Journal. Haldeman became president of the new corporation. ==Personal life==

Haldeman married Eliza Metcalfe of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1844. They had six children: Lizzie, Isabel, William, Bruce, John, and an unnamed child who died in infancy. Haldeman died in Louisville on the morning of May 14, 1902, from peritonitis following an injury from being hit by a street car a week prior. ==References==