term, and went to Europe on a convalescent tour. Post-mayoral politics Medill died on March 16th,1899 at the age of 75 in San Antonio,Texas. Legacy and honors During World War II, the Liberty ship was built in Panama City, and named in his honor. The Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University is also named in his honor. Family tree The tree omits Medill's third daughter, Josephine, who died in 1892. References Further reading McKinney, M. The Magnificent Medills (2011) Anderson, Jeffrey Justin. Joseph Medill: How one man influenced the Republican presidential nomination of 1860 (Ph.D. Diss.) Roosevelt University, 2011. Tebbel, John William. An American dynasty: the story of the McCormicks, Medills, and Pattersons'' Greenwood Pub. Group, 1968. External links 1823 births 1899 deaths 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Chicago Tribune people Mayors of Chicago People of the American Civil War Writers from Saint John, New Brunswick Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) People from Wheaton, Illinois Illinois Free Soilers Illinois Republicans 19th-century American journalists American male journalists 19th-century American male writers Journalists from Illinois Medill-Patterson family American abolitionists