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Cardozo, Isaac N

journalist, author, was born June 17, 1786, in Savannah, Ga. He became editor of the Southern Patriot in Charleston in 1816, and its sole proprietor in 1823. He took an active part in 1823 in the establishment of the Charleston chamber of commerce. He sold his paper in 1845, and in the same year established the Evening News, of which he became the commercial editor.

He was a contributor to the Southern Quarterly Review and other periodicals; and published Notes on Political Economy. He was drowned Aug. 26, 1850, in James River, Va.

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