Other Scripps Relations

 

The wealthy Scripps families of E.W. Scripps and his half-brother J.E Scripps are also descended from William Scripps of London. E.W Scripps and James Edmund Scripps were second cousins of Edith Clarke Scripps' father, George Clarke Scripps.

 

Extracts from Family Fortunes (from Forbes magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/98/1012/6208362a.htm

These [are two of the] 50 families [that] represent some of America's great fortunes from the past. All are billion-dollar bundles.

Scripps (E.W.)
$4.4 billion
Publishing. Cincinnati

Descendants of E.W. Scripps (d. 1926), founded Cleveland Press in 1878 at age 24. Built Scripps Howard newspaper chain, at one time the country's largest. Also founded UPI. E.W. had bitter split with half-brother James (see J.E. Scripps family). E.W.'s son James also split, founded Scripps League newspapers, a privately held chain of local dailies. Today Scripps runs 20 daily newspapers, 9 network affiliated television stations and 2 cable television networks. Family trusts that control majority of the company terminate upon the death of the last of E.W.'s grandchildren.

Scripps Ranch
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The E.W. Scripps Company
Scripps Howard Foundation

Scripps (J.E.)
$1 billion
Publishing. Detroit, et al.

English immigrant James Edmund Scripps arrived in Illinois 1844. Started Detroit News 1873. Kept stories short and simple for minimally educated factory workers. Circulation rocketed to five times local competitor's. Repeated formula in Cleveland, Cincinnati, other cities. Bitter split with half-brother E.W.; J.E. merged with other papers, built Evening News Association. Great-grandson Peter Clark sold to Gannett for $717 million 1986. Fortune shared by more than 200 family members.

James E. Scripps and Detroit's art museum

 

A half sister to E.W.Scripps and J.E.Scripps

Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932)
journalist, publisher, and philanthropist [biography] [more]

 

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