DUNNE, FINLEY PETER

(1867), humorist and journalist; b. Chicago. He received a public school education in his native city and in 1885 became a reporter, then city editor of the Chicago Times. He was a member of the editorial staff of the Chicago Evening Post, and Times-Herald, from 1892 to 1897, and thereafter edited the Chicago Journal till 1900. Meantime he began to be known for the humorous philosophy he expre ed through the medium of ‘Mr. Dooley,’ a saloon keeper, in a series of newspaper sketches which first appeared in the Times-Herald. He removed to New York City, where he joined the American Magazine as a ociate editor, and continued his Dooley sketches through that and other popular periodicals. The Spanish-American war inspired him with a genial vein of Irish American comment that made Mr. Dooley a popular oracle on both sides of the Atlantic. His writings were collected in book form under the titles, of Mr. Dooley in Peace and War; Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of his Countrymen; Opinions; Observations of Mr. Dooley; Says; and Mr. Dooley on Making a Will, 1919. He was a frequent contributor of editorial comments to Collier’s Weekly, which he edited from 1917 to 1919. In 1923 he revived Mr. Dooley as a commentator on current oe in the pages of the New York orld.