Lorettus Straw Metcalf

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Research of Bob Tate on ancestry.com - Founded the Florida Daily Citizen and was its editor from 1893 to 1897.


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Lorettus Sutton, editor, was born in Monmouth, Maine, Oct. 17, 1837; son of Mason Jerome (q.v.) and Hannah Elizabeth (Welch) Metcalf.
He attended Monmouth academy and the Boston schools. He was married, Sept. 12, 1861, to Amanda Ames, daughter of John Lament of Bath, Maine.
In 1866 he began to contribute to newspapers in Boston. He edited the Messenger, a weekly paper, in Malden, Mass., 1871, and he was editor of five weekly papers published near Boston, 1872-76.
He was business manager and managing editor of the North American Review, New York city, 1876-85, and in 1886 established The Forum, devoted to the discussion of current questions, and edited it until 1891.
He founded the Florida Daily Citizen, Jacksonville, Fla., and edited it, 1893-97, and in the latter year he returned to New York and devoted himself to literary work of various kinds.
He traveled extensively in the United States and Europe, and was elected a member of the Century association, the Authors club, and several scientific and philosophical societies. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Bates college, Maine, in 1889, and that of LL.D. from Iowa college in 1890.

Lorettus married Amanda Ames Lemont, daughter of John Robinson Lemont and Susan Randell, on 2 Sep 1861. (Amanda Ames Lemont was born on 21 Feb 1839 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, died on 10 Jan 1912 in Maine and was buried in Monmouth Center Cemetery in Monmouth, Maine.)