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Frank Ernest Gannett (September 15, 1876 - December 3, 1957) founded the Gannett media corporation. He was born in South Bristol, New York
South Bristol, New York

South Bristol is a town in Ontario County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 1,645 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from its separation from the Town of Bristol....
 and graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
.

At the age of 30, he purchased his first newspaper, the Elmira
Elmira, New York

Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, New York, USA. It is the principal city of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses Chemung County, New York....
 Gazette (now the Star-Gazette
Star-Gazette

The Star-Gazette is the major newspaper for Elmira, New York. Based in Elmira, the publication is owned by the Gannett Corporation....
). Six years later, in 1912, he purchased the Ithaca Journal. In 1918, he and his partners moved their headquarters to Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
 where they acquired the Herald, Union(?) and Advertiser(?) and combined them as the Times-Union (the former evening paper of Rochester).






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Frank Ernest Gannett (September 15, 1876 - December 3, 1957) founded the Gannett media corporation. He was born in South Bristol, New York
South Bristol, New York

South Bristol is a town in Ontario County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 1,645 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from its separation from the Town of Bristol....
 and graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
.

At the age of 30, he purchased his first newspaper, the Elmira
Elmira, New York

Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, New York, USA. It is the principal city of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses Chemung County, New York....
 Gazette (now the Star-Gazette
Star-Gazette

The Star-Gazette is the major newspaper for Elmira, New York. Based in Elmira, the publication is owned by the Gannett Corporation....
). Six years later, in 1912, he purchased the Ithaca Journal. In 1918, he and his partners moved their headquarters to Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
 where they acquired the Herald, Union(?) and Advertiser(?) and combined them as the Times-Union (the former evening paper of Rochester). In 1923 Gannett bought out his partners and formed his eponymous holding company
Holding company

A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself, rather its only purpose is owning shares of other companies....
 which then consisted of six newspapers. In 1928 Gannett had purchased the Democrat and Chronicle
Democrat and Chronicle

The Democrat and Chronicle is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in the greater Rochester, Monroe County, New York area. Located at 55 Exchange Boulevard in downtown Rochester, the Democrat and Chronicle operates under the ownership of Gannett....
 morning paper of Rochester. By 1929 the company owned 16 newspapers.

Active in state politics, Gannett took a neutral stand to the New Deal
New Deal

The New Deal was the name that United States President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the Economy of the Unite...
 in 1936 before joining the opposition against President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , often referred to by his initials FDR, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
's court-packing scheme. He helped the Republicans retake control of Rochester's City Council a year later. At one time (1939-1940), he ran for presidential nomination. He was a founding member of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government
National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government

The National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government was founded in 1937 in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937....
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In his remaining years he worked hard to modernize his regional newspaper conglomerate. He was always striving to obtain modern ideas and machinery. The Gannett company owned 22 newspapers at the time of Gannett's death in Rochester in 1957. However, it was only after he died that the company grew nation-wide. The Gannett Corporation that he founded today includes such newspapers as USA Today
USA Today

'USA TODAY' is a national United States daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Allen Neuharth. The paper has the widest newspaper circulation of any newspaper in the United States , and among English-language broadsheets, it comes second worldwide, behind only the 2.6 million daily paid copies of The Times of...
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The libraries at Elmira College
Elmira College

Elmira College is a coeducational private college liberal arts college located in Elmira, New York, in New York Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men ....
, Utica College
Utica College

Utica College is a private university university located in Utica, New York, New York. The history of the college dates back to the 1930s when Syracuse University began offering extension courses in the Utica area....
, and Ithaca College
Ithaca College

Ithaca College is a private college institution of higher education located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music....
 are named for him, in addition to the student health center at Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 (Gannett Health Services) and the building that houses the printing and photography programs at Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
. There is also the Frank E. Gannett Field House named after him at Wilson College
Wilson College (Pennsylvania)

Wilson College, founded 1869, is a private, Presbyterian-related, Liberal arts colleges in the United States Women's colleges in the United States located on a campus in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States....
 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Chambersburg is a Borough in the South Central Pennsylvania region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is miles north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley....
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Frank Gannett is buried in historic Mt. Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester

Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal rural cemetery. Situated on 196 acres of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people....
 in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
.