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- Patterson Guggenheim, Alicia
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Alicia Patterson Guggenheim was the daughter of Alice Patterson (nee Higinbotham) and famed founder and editor of the New York Daily News, Joseph Medill Patterson. Patterson Guggenheim had two sisters, Josephine and Elinor, as well as a half-brother, James “Jimmy” Patterson. She grew up in Libertyville, Illinois and developed a love of hunting, horseback riding and travel at an early age. Alicia Patterson Guggenheim followed in her father’s footsteps and became a writer at both the New York Daily News and Liberty magazine in her 20s. It was during this time that Patterson Guggenheim became interested in aviation and earned her transport pilot’s license in 1934, only the tenth woman in America to do so. Patterson Guggenheim was married three times, first to James Simpson (1927-1930), then to Joseph Brooks (1931-1939) and finally to Harry Guggenheim (1939-1963), whom she was married to until her death. Along with Guggenheim, Patterson Guggenheim founded and became publisher and editor of the newspaper, Newsday, in 1940. Newsday won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Patterson Guggenheim died at age 56 in 1963 due to complications from stomach surgery.