Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Leckie, Archibald S 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Archibald S. Leckie, whose name is by no means, unknown in journalistic 
circles and who as editor of the Joliet Herald has done much to raise the 
standard of newspaper publication in Joliet was born in Chicago, April 7, 
1864. He entered newspaper work in 1884, when twenty years of age, on the 
Chicago Daily News, acting successively as reporter, telegraph editor and city 
editor. His education and training in this direction was received under 
Melville E. Stone, with whom he was in close and intimate relations for four 
years. He left the News in 1888 to enter upon business connections with the 
City Press Association of Chicago, being made general manager of this concern 
in 1890, a position he held until 1901, when he purchased an interest in the 
Rockford (Illinois) Register Gazette. For more than two years he was an active 
factor in politics in northern Illinois in connection with his position as 
editor of the Register Gazette, which became one of the leading papers of the 
state. In 1904 he sold his interest in Rockford and went to Philadelphia, 
where he was offered the position of night managing editor of the Public 
Ledger, but he did not accept the position as life in the middle west was more 
congenial and he returned to Chicago, becoming city editor of the Chronicle. 
There he remained until he assumed charge of the Joliet Herald, which has 
prospered under his management and is one of the leading papers of the state 
outside of the great Chicago dailies. Mr. Leckie was married in 1888 to Miss 
Jennie McKay, a daughter of Captain C. P. McKay, of Chicago, and has one son, 
Archibald Yerner, born in 1903. Mr. Leckie belongs to the Episcopal church, to 
the Masonic fraternity and to the Elks lodge. He is now one of the oldest 
members of the Chicago Press Club and was most active in its affairs for 
several years. He is also a member of the Union League and the Joliet 
Commercial Clubs. He is a journalist whose recognized ability was well 
established before he assumed charge of the editorial department of the Herald 
and the business management of the Joliet Printing Company. He has been 
successful in elevating the standard of journalism in Joliet and in creating a 
healthier and more progressive spirit in the business community. The Joliet 
Herald under his management does honor to Will county as well as to the 
guiding spirit of Mr. Leckie and those who are his associates on this 
successful daily paper. 

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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