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Charles J. O'Malley was born at Newport, County Mayo,
Ireland, in 1859. He derived his education at his native place
and at Glasgow, Scotland. He ran away from college at the age of
fourteen, and came to this country. After a short time in New
York city, he went to Manistee, Mich., where a brother was running a
weekly paper, and learned the business in all its branches. In
1885 he became a reporter on the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin
and later on the Chicago Times. He then started a weekly
paper in Scranton, Pa. Afterwards he returned to Manistee, and
ran the Advocate there for a year; then went to work for the Rocky
Mountain News at Denver. In 1890 he went to Europe for the
News, and on his return became traveling correspondent for the Detroit
Evening News, and three years later was made business manager
of the Free Press. In 1895 he left to take charge of a
department in the New Orage Industrial Association, which built an
industrial town in New Jersey.
In February, 1897, Mr. O'Malley came to
Kansas City for the Scripps-McRea League, and had charge of the Pure
Food Exposition, afterwards devoting his energy to the building up of
the Kansas City World and other papers owned by the League.
In 1899 he started the Land Owner's Security
Company.
He is prominent in local Catholic and Irish
affairs, being a charter member and recorder of the Kansas City
Council of the Knights of Columbus, and is also a director of the
Karnival Krewe.
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