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'''(Thompson Price McElrath''' (1937-) was a soldier, newspaper man, lawyer, real estate attorney in Miles City.

The [[Yellostone Journal]]’s first editor and owner, Major Thompson P. McElrath, a veteran of the Civil War and son of the New York Tribune owner and assistant editor of both the Philadelphia Evening Journal and the New York Weekly Century, relocated to Miles City, Montana in May 1879 for his health.  McElrath had a financial interest in promoting the fledgling town, appointed the U.S. [[Land Office]] commissioner a year after his arrival and acquiring major real estate interests over time.

McElrath was present as a reporter for The New York Times during the [[Cheyenne murder trial]]. Two months later, he launched the [[Yellowstone Journal]].