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Thomas J. Caystile, known as T.J. Caystile (1848–1884), was an American, printer and newspaperman, who, with his partners, Jesse Yarnell and S. J. Mathes, founded the ''Los Angeles Mirror'' and later took over the ''Los Angeles Daily Times,'' later to be known as the ''
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.'' "Early Publisher's Daughter Dies," ''Los Angeles Times,'' February 16, 1941, page 24
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Caystile was the son of immigrants, Thomas and Esther (Lea) Caystile from the
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. Caystile's father, led a wagon train across the plains to California, where the family settled in Placerville. On December 19, 1868, Caystile became the owner of the Mountain Democrat in that town, along with George Kles. He died on May 16, 1884, and was survived by a daughter, Helen Caystile Duncan. He had a sister, Kate, who married George K. Porter, owner of the
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in the San Fernando Valley, and another sister, Marian of
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. His widow, Helen M., was the daughter of Caleb Edwin White, a
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and Rebecca Holship née Furguson. Seven years after Caystile's death, she married 2 Sep 1890
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, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of California."Wedding Bells," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 4, 1890, page 4
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Their daughter Lucretia Louise del Valle married Henry Francis Grady, Ambassador to Greece, India, and Iran.


See also

* List of Los Angeles Times publishers


References


External links


"The Times' 128-Year History," ''Los Angeles Times Media Group''
1848 births 1884 deaths 19th-century American newspaper founders {{US-publish-bio-stub