Lincoln Steffens AKA Joseph Lincoln Steffens Born: 6-Apr-1866 Birthplace: San Francisco, CA Died: 9-Aug-1936 Location of death: Carmel, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Journalist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Early muckraking journalist On meeting Vladimir Lenin: "I have seen the future, and it works." Father: Joseph Steffens Mother: Elizabeth Louisa Symes Sister: Louisa (b. 1874) Wife: Josephine Bontecou (m. 4-Nov-1891) Wife: Ella Winter Son: Peter Stanley Steffens
Military School: St. Matthew's Hall, San Mateo, CA University: PhB, University of California at Berkeley (1889)
The New York Evening Post Reporter (1892-98) New York Commercial Advertiser City Editor (1898-1902) McClure's Managing Editor (1902-06) American Magazine 1906-07 Everybody's Magazine 1906-11 Traveled to Bolshevik Russia 1919 Traveled to the USSR Sep-1923 International Free Trade League
League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners Advisory Board
German Ancestry Paternal
Irish Ancestry Paternal
Author of books:
The Shame of the Cities (1904, collection) The Struggle for Self-Government (1906, collection) Upbuilders (1909, collection) The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931, memoir)
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