Pulitzer Greats:

                       

Don Mellett

         
Don Mellett was born on September 26, 1891 in Elwood, Indiana to a family of journalists. His father and five siblings became journalists. After graduation from high school he entered Indiana University where he edited The Daily Student. As editor he began a reform campaign to improve the water system of Bloomington and succeeded. After a stint with the Indianapolis News, and The National Enquirer, a prohibition newspaper, he moved his family to Akron, serving with the Akron Press. There he met James Cox , former Governor of Ohio , and Democratic candidate for President. Cox persuaded him to come to the Canton Daily News. In several articles he called for reform in education, reform in hospitals, and reform in government. His attacks on underworld activity led to threats upon his life. On July 16, 1926, he was shot while putting his car in the garage. The ensuing reform led to the awarding of the Pulitizer Prize to the Canton Daily News in 1927. He is honored in the cornerstone of the Canton Daily News Building now housing the Canton Repository. He was entered into the Indiana Journalist Hall of Fame in 1969.
            
 
Charles R. Macauley

Charles was born in Canton, Ohio in 1871 and attended the public schools here. In 1890 he won an award for best cartoon in the Cleveland Press.He began his journalistic career with the Canton Repository, publishing cartoons in 1893 while he was working at the Hampden Watch Company in Canton. He published cartoons for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1899, and 1900. In 1904 he moved to New York and published numerous articles for the New York Times, cartoons for Judge Magazine and for the old Life. That year he published his illustrated novel, Fantasmaland, a work similar to Alice in Wonderland. From 1906 to 1916 he was creating daily political cartoons for the New York World. He illustrated books for Joseph Conrad and Arthur Conan Doyle. He published another novel, Red Tavern, in 1914. Five years later he created a company, Charles R. Macauley Photoplays, which company produced movies. One of his films, When Bearcat Went Dry, is one of the two oldest films surviving, now at the American Film Institute. And in 1929 while working with the Brooklyn Eagle he cartooned a criticism of the Treaty of Versailles for which cartoon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. He died in November of 1934.