Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant to America. After serving in the Union army toward the end of the war, he moved to St. Louis. Poor and speaking little English, he met many German immigrants in St. louis with whom to communicate. Several years later, he invested in two dying newspapers, merging them as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He also purchased the New York World. He left Columbia University a large bequest, from which the university established the Pulitzer Prizes. He was born April 9, 1847.
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