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Bennett, James Gordon

journalist, was born May 10, 1841, in New York city. He became the proprietor of The New York Herald upon the death of his father. He added to the fame of his paper by publishing in England storm-warnings transmitted from the United States; by fitting out the Jeanette polar expedition; by sending Henry M. Stanley in search of Livingstone; and by other similar enterprises. In 1883 he associated himself with John W. Mackay in forming the commercial cable company and laying a new cable between America and Europe, to compete with the combined English and French lines.