Images: #TBT Gallery remembers the Paddock family
The Paddock family name has been linked to the newspaper industry since Hosea Cornish Paddock bought the Palatine Enterprise Weekly on Dec. 15, 1898, for $175. He started a legacy that has evolved into today's Daily Herald Media Group.
Stuart R. Paddock Sr.'s newspaper career spanned 65 years and he was a tireless editor who became known as "the father of modern suburban journalism." The only excuse a newspaper has for its existence he said, "is the community service it can give."
Stuart Ransom Paddock Jr. is credited with transforming the Daily Herald from a group of small-town weeklies into one of the largest, most successful suburban newspapers in America.
The lineage of the Paddock family is as follows, Hosea C. Paddock; his sons Stuart R. Paddock Sr. and Charles S. Paddock; the third generation of Stuart R Paddock Jr., Robert Y. Paddock Sr., Margie S. Flanders; and the current generation of Robert Y. Paddock Jr. and Stuart R. Paddock III.
The Paddock motto is "Our aim: To fear God, tell the truth and make money." - H.C. Paddock 1852-1935
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. in 1974. being filmed by a student at the Daily Herald on Campbell Street in Arlington Heights.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. in 1979 sorting papers with a boy.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. at a groundbreaking reception in 1985.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. meeting President Jimmy Carter in 1978.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. Chairman, Paddock Publications meets with Boy Scouts Scott Nelson, Matt Hoffman, Bob Anderson and Artie Anderson reviewing their efforts as the kids work on a history project concerning the Paddock Elementary School.
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River Trials Park District in Prospect Heights won the 1969 Paddock Olympics. Receiving the award from Robert Paddock, executive vice president of Paddock Publications are Miss Cecily Sypult and Marvin Weiss.
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70 years in business at one spot, Harry Schoppe listens to a speech by Robert Paddock, vice president of Paddock Publications in 1964.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. publisher of The Daily Herald and Daniel E. Baumann, Left, editor, look over the mock-up of the new evening edition.
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Executive Vice President Robert Y. Paddock donates blood in a special blood replacement program in 1973.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. second from left with Robert Y. Paddock Sr. in 1982.
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Robert O. Atcher, left, Schaumburg Village President, T. William Swinford, center, news editor and Robert Y. Paddock, right, vice president of Paddock Publications look over the new Schaumburg Herald edition.
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Bob Paddock, Sr. and Mary Kania lead the way in the 10th annual Swim-A-Cross for the American Red Cross in 1990.
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Bob Paddock Sr. holds an informal talk several mornings a week at Pieper's Chocolate Shop on Campbell St. in Arlington Heights. Ran in the Daily Herald on January 26, 1998.
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Mr. Schoppe fitted shoes on Bob Paddock, third generation member of the family that has been publishing the Palatine Enterprise for almost 70 years. This picture was taken in 1966.
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Joseph Schneller, Robert Paddock and Virgil Horath, L-R gaze at the bowling banner and scoresheet that commemorates what is believed to be the first "300" game bowled in the village. Picture taken in 1970.
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Rose bowl trip winners in 1990 were Bill and Margaret Nitchals of Rolling Meadows with Bob Paddock, left, and Bob Frisk both of the Daily Herald.
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The retail committee of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce is already thinking about Christmas. Plans are underway for the annual Arlington Heights Holiday parade, including this ostrich just made for the kids. With the ostrich are Richard Streckfeuss of Streckfeuss Enterprises, and Bob Paddock, retail committee expediter. Photo taken in 1970.
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Palatine Township Elementary District 15 broke ground for an addition to the Stuart R. Paddock School. Robert Y. Paddock, son of the school's namesake, joined school officials for the groundbreaking ceremony, and said that education was important to his father's generation. Photo taken in 1989.
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Bob Y. Paddock Sr. celebrates his 58th birthday in 1975.
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Bob Y. Paddock Sr. attends the Heart Beat Ball. The ball was the first event to be held in the newly-completed Futurity Room at Arlington Park. Photo was taken in 1968.
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Stuart R. Paddock III with Bob Y. Paddock Sr. and William Chambers of Arlington Heights, Stuart R. Paddock Jr. and Robert Y. Paddock Jr. William Chambers is the artist who painted the paintings in the background of the Paddock family members.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. during one of the many Daily Herald promotions.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. center, publisher of the Daily Herald, in the newsroom with new computers in the 80s.
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Stuart Paddock III, left, and Stuart R. Paddock Jr. break ground for the previous new Daily Herald printing center.
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Stuart R. Paddock Jr. in his office with a birthday cake.
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Stuart Paddock Sr. in front of the file cabinet, during a staff meeting at the Daily Herald.
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Anita Wilkins, left, close friend to Margie S. Flanders who is one of the owners of Paddock Publications.
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This is Daily Herald founder Hosea Cornish Paddock was in his 40s when he bought the Palatine Enterprise Weekly on Dec. 15, 1898 for $175. He began a legacy that has evolved into today's Daily Herald Media Group.
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