George Grantham Bain

Place: Chicago

Born: 1865

Death: 1944

Biography:

George Grantham Bain (January 7, 1865 – April 20, 1944) was a New York City photographer. He was known as 'the father of foreign photographic news'. Bain was born in Chicago, Illinois, to George Bain and Clara Mather. His family moved from Chicago to St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Saint Louis University as an undergraduate to study chemistry, and later attained a law degree from the same institution. After graduation, Bain became a reporter at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The following year he moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he became the Washington, D.C. correspondent. He worked for United Press before he started the Bain News Service in 1898. He died at age 79, on April 20, 1944, at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.