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Jacob Riis is dead
5/27/1914 Massachusetts 

Yesterday, on May 26, 1914, Jacob Riis died at his Massachusetts farm. He was 65 years old. Jacob Riis was born on May 3, 1849, in Denmark. He came to the United States in 1870. He was well known as a famous muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer. In 1888, the New York Sun published his essay, “Flashes from the Slums”, and in December 1889, Scribner’s Magazine published Riis’s photographic essay on city life. This work helped convince the Commissioner of Police Theodore Roosevelt to close the police-run poor houses where Riis suffered during his first months in America. After reading Riis’s essay, Roosevelt was deeply moved. Jacob Riis was an influential journalist who influenced us in many ways. We must mourn his death .