Edward Holmead Harte Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of Edward Holmead Harte.

Edward Holmead Harte Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of Edward Holmead Harte.
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(The following essay discusses Edward Holmead Harte and his brother, Houston Harriman Harte.)

Harte-Hanks Communications--the San Antonio-based media company with major holdings in newspapers, television, advertising shoppers, and direct marketing--was taken over on 11 September 1984 after a twelve-year run on the New York Stock Exchange, which included fifty consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth. A team of company insiders, among them Edward and Houston Harte, consolidated control over the media company cofounded by their father, the late Robert William Houston Harte. It was a move that might have pleased the elder Harte, a Missouri-born newspaperman who began his publishing empire in the western Texas town of San Angelo in the 1920s.

The 1984 buyout and subsequent sell-off of some of Harte-Hanks major media properties were another phase in the evolution of a fifty-year-old media empire started by the elder Houston Harte and Bernard Hanks, rival newspaper publishers who formed a partnership...

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