Ivory Chamberlain

Ivory Chamberlain (March 13, 1821 - March 9, 1881) was the editor of the New York Herald.{{cite book|author=Gray Williams|title=New Castle: Chappaqua and Millwood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=La7WYMmC4UUC&pg=PA104|year=2006|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-3928-7|pages=104–}} He was a political supporter of his friend and neighbor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune.{{cite book|author=Judith A. Ranta|title=The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WjGZBhdkyb0C&pg=PA51|year=2003|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1-55553-564-3|pages=51–}} He also worked for Manton Marble at the New York World.{{cite book|author=Mary Cortona Phelan|title=Manton Marble of the New York World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QowOAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Catholic University of America Press}}

He wrote a biography of Millard Fillmore.

Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain,{{cite book|author=Kenneth Whyte|title=The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0M-nmW4BX6kC&pg=PA78|year=2009|publisher=Counterpoint|isbn=978-1-58243-467-4|pages=78–}} who was also an influential writer at newspapers, and Elizabeth Chamberlain were his children.

When he went from the World to the Herald in 1876, he was very highly paid for an editorial writer.{{cite book|author=Talcott Williams|title=The Newspaperman|url=https://archive.org/details/newspaperman00willgoog|year=1922|publisher=C. Scribner's Sons|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newspaperman00willgoog/page/n170 158]–}} He was part of a small group of highly influential writers at the World involved in Democratic Party politics.{{cite book|author=Daniel W. Crofts|title=A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKlNvG5wNtQC&pg=PA153-IA4|date=15 April 2010|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3739-0|pages=153–}}