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Karl Bickel, K. A. Bickel, and Karl August Bickel should link here
Karl August Bickel (January 20, 1882-December 1972) was a journalist, press company leader, author, and civic leader in the United States. He visited Sarasota in 1928 and retired there in 1935, becoming active in various civic projects, historic site preservation, and infrastructure improvement plans.[1]
He was born in Geneseo, Illinois. He attended Stanford University. He worked at the News and Examiner in San Francisco before joining United Press in San Francisco in 1907, the same year it was founded. Later that year he became its first manager in Portland, Oregon. He left and edited of the 'mSaioy News in Grand Junction, Colorado]] before rejoining United Press in 1913 as a salesman. From 1923 to 1935 he headed United Press. Afterwards he chaired the board of Scripps Howard Radio, Inc., and went to live in Sarasota.[2]
He married Helen Madira Davis (died 1964).[2] He and his wife visited Moscow in the Soviet Union, China, and Japan.[3] He wrote a letter discussing his travel plans with his wife and the U.S. involvement in the attempted overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba.<rrf>https://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:2388223/OVERVIEW</ref>
He was interviewed in 1923.[4] He was the commencemnt speaker at Marquette University in 1925.[5] In an article he wrote for n the birthplaces on conquistadors, he wrote approvingly of Ruth Matilda Anderson's descriptions of Extremadura.[6] He and his wife went to Brazil.[7]
He was survived by his sister Sarah Bickel Payne of Lynchburg, Virginia.[2] The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has a collection of his correspondence.[8]
He lived in the Burns Realty Company–Karl Bickel House designed by Dwight James Baum. He donated the Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site to the state of Florida. In 1946 he was elected president of the Florida Historical Society.[9]
An exhibition was held at the Ringling Museum in his honor after his death.[10]
Writings
[edit]Articles
[edit]- "Earning a Living at Stanford" (1905)[13]
- '"Birthplaces of the Conquistadors" Historical Quarterly Vol. 36 No. 1 (1957)[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ LaHurd, Jeff. "Real History with Jeff LaHurd: The couple that helped Sarasota rebuild". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
- ^ a b c https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/12/archives/karl-a-bickel-90-led-news-service-president-of-united-press-from.html
- ^ "Editor & Publisher". 1923.
- ^ Barton, Bruce; Bickel, Karl A. (November 18, 1923). Things that interest you most in your newspaper: an interview with ... Karl A. Bickel ... The American magazine ;v. 96, no. 1 – via Hathi Trust.
- ^ "Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests". 1925.
- ^ a b Bickel, Karl (April 14, 2021). "Birthplaces of the Conquistadors". Florida Historical Quarterly. 36 (1).
- ^ "Brazilian American". 1925.
- ^ https://www.ringling.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Karl-A.Bickel-Correspondence.pdf
- ^ "Karl Bickel Saw Sarasota as an Ideal Place to Retire | Sarasota History Alive!". www.sarasotahistoryalive.com.
- ^ Gillmore, Florence (1973). "Karl August Bickel, 1882-1972: An Exhibition to Honor His Many Contributions to the Ringling Museums and the State of Florida, October 25-November 25, 1973".
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1942/04/19/archives/west-florida-as-the-last-frontier-the-mangrove-coast-by-karl-a.html
- ^ Bickel, Karl (January 1, 1942). "The Mangrove Coast: The Story of the West Coast of Florida". City, County, and Regional Histories E-Book Collection.
- ^ Lummis, Charles Fletcher (1905). "Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New".