William Randolph Hearst was a publisher who was born April 29, 1863 and died August 14, 1951. He was the editor of San Francisco Examiner in 1886, and later bought his own newspaper, the New York Morning Journal. He bought additional newspapers after the financial success of the Morning Journal. The Hearst empire included a 240,000 acre ranch at San Simeon, California. Hearst acquired a Brasher Doubloon from Col. Green, the Philadelphia Sewer specimen.