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Letter, 2 January 1878
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Herbert Foster Gunnison was born on June 28, 1858, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was a journalist, editor, and author. He was president and publisher of the “Brooklyn Daily Eagle” and identified with Brooklyn journalism for over fifty years. He started at the “Eagle” in 1882 and stayed with them until 1929. Gunnison was one of the organizers of the Newspaper Publishers Association and for two years he was vice president of the Associated Press. He is the author of several tourist guides, e.g., "The Beauties of Long Island" (5 editions published between 1895 and 2018) and "Two Americans in a Motor Car. Touring in Europe" (1905).
In 1886, he married Alice May (1861–1917) and in 1923, he married Effie Gordon Munroe (1877–1947). He died on November 25, 1932, in New York City, New York.
Letter from H.F. Gunnison to John William Dawson, written from New York.