William Randolph Hearst

Brandon Short-Plaut
1863-1951 Born in San Francisco, California. William influenced and extended publishing, politics, Hollywood, and the art world and everyday American life. His dad was a miner.  Hearst and his mom toured Europe at the age of 10. Back in America he was inrolled at St. Paul's Preparatory School in Concord, New Hampshire at 16. Later he went to Harvard where he showed the first signs of becoming a thriving future publisher. 1903 Hearst married Millicent Willson in New York City. They had five boys, two which were twins. On the honeymoon in the European continent inspired Mr. Hearst to make his first magazine, Motor. Later in the 1920s to the 1940s he produced about 100 films already. Hearst was a collector and had a nice big collection of classical paintings, tapestries, religious textiles, oriental rugs, antiquities, sculptures, silver, furniture, and antique ceilings. He died at the age of 88 in 1951. All of his sons followed in his footsteps and went into the media business.