George Cruikshank (editor)
George Marcus Cruikshank (15 March 1857 – 15 September 1936) was an American educator, newspaper editor and historian.
Cruikshank, born in Versailles, Kentucky, was the son of Marcus Cruikshank, a Confederate congressman and later mayor of Talladega, Alabama. He was raised in Talladega and completed his studies there and remained to teach in the Talladega County schools and the Alabama School for the Blind.
In 1883, Cruikshank moved to Birmingham as editor of the Birmingham Chronicle. He married in 1887 and, three years later, moved to Washington D. C. as superintendent of the folding room of the House of Representatives, where all congressional mail was delivered. He resigned in 1893 to accept his appointment as Postmaster of Birmingham.
When his four year term concluded, he returned to newspapers as editor of the Birmingham Ledger, which he cultivated into one of the larger newspapers in the South. The Ledger was acquired by The Birmingham News in 1920.
Cruikshanks' A History of Birmingham and its Environs was published in two volumes in 1920. He was a Master Mason, a member of the Alabama Press Association and the Birmingham Press Club, as well as the Commercial Club of Birmingham. He was president of the Birmingham chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He and his wife had two children, Mary and Marcus.
Cruikshank died in 1936 and is buried at Grand Bay Cemetery in Mobile County.
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