Edward J. Doherty

Eddie Doherty
Born	October 30, 1890 Chicago, US
Died	May 4, 1975 Combermere, Canada
Nationality	American, naturalized Canadian
Occupation	Reporter, author, founder of Madonna House Apostolate
Spouse(s)	Catherine Doherty
Children	Edward Doherty Jr., Jack Jim Doherty

Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty (October 30, 1890 – May 4, 1975) was an American newspaper reporter, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. He is the co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

Eddie Doherty was born in Chicago in 1890 to Police Lieutenant Edward Doherty and Ellen Rodgers. He was the eldest of ten children in the Irish Catholic family. At the age of 13 he entered a Servite monastery in Wisconsin. After two years he left the seminary, returned to Chicago, and went to work at the City Press.

Starting as a newspaper copy boy, Doherty worked at various other Chicago newspapers, including the Examiner, the Record-Herald, the Tribune, the Herald, and the American. It was at the American that he began writing columns. He married his childhood sweetheart, Marie Ryan, on December 15, 1914. His wife died in the 1918 flu epidemic, leaving him with a baby son. In his sorrow, Doherty left the Church.

The following summer he married his second wife, Mildred Frisby, on July 16, 1919. Doherty had a second son, Jack Jim. Back at the Tribune, he helped establish the Joseph Medill School of Journalism. Eddie Doherty and his wife and two children moved west, and started working for the Chicago Tribune's Hollywood bureau. He "made his reputation initially covering such scandals as the Wally Reid case and the Fatty Arbuckle trial". The News' trucks and billboards proclaimed him "The Star Reporter of America"; The Mirror "billed him as America's Highest Paid Reporter".

In 1939, Mildred died in a freak accident (from a fall) while out for a walk alone. This time, however, Doherty found peace for his grieving in returning to the Catholic Church.

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