Newspapers and periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, Part 1

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GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH, # 3560


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ON 1939


COLLECTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY


VOLUME VI GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH. 3560


DATE MICROFILMED 17 Jevre 1942


ITEM # 2


PROJECT and G.S. ROLL # CALL #


XL187-102 #


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973.3 84, ¥6


ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY


BOARD OF TRUSTEES EVARTS BOUTELL GREENE, President MCKENDREE HYPES CHAMBERLIN,* Vice-President OTTO LEOPOLD SCHMIDT, Secretary.


JESSIE PALMER WEBER, Librarian 1


ADVISORY COMMISSION


EVARTS BOUTELL GREENE


JAMES ALTON JAMES


ANDREW CUNNINGHAM MCLAUGHLIN


WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MEESE


EDWARD CARLETON PAGE


CHARLES HENRY RAMMELKAMP


CLARENCE WALWORTH ALVORD Special Editor of Publications


*Resigned, July, 1910.


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERIES VOLUME I


NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS OF ILLINOIS 1814-1879


THIS VOLUME IS A REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION OF "NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED IN ILLINOIS PRIOR TO 1860," PUBLICATIONS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY, VOLUME I., NO. 1, BY EDMUND JANES JAMES


PREFACE


As first planned, this work was to include by way of in- troduction a fairly comprehensive history of the periodicals and newspapers of the state. The bibliography grew be- yond the expected size, and the historical material proved even more abundant; consequently the introduction has been made only a sketch, and is to be regarded as but preliminary to a more thorough treatment of the subject. It is to be hoped, however, that even in this brief form it may indicate some of the many ways in which the ephemeral stuff of newspapers and periodicals is an organic part of the literature and history of the commonwealth. That but a slight amount of this material is preserved at all, and that little of what is extant is accessible, are two deplor- able facts to be derived from the following pages. The library lists may prove a convenience to those who have occasion to consult files of early newspapers. If they serve no other purpose, however, they may call attention to the slight amount of such material now in the safe keeping of fireproof library buildings, and may indirectly help to rescue from attics and storerooms the dwindling legacy that is food for mice and flames.


The sources of the bibliography include practically all of the printed county histories and "biographical albums" and some in manuscript; the proceedings of state, county,


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ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS


and city historical societies, histories of Illinois and of towns; gazetteers, early books of travels, memoirs, city directories, newspaper directories from 1856, fourteen hundred indi- viduals, either through correspondence or through inter- views, and the files of many of the publications. In many instances it has been well nigh, and in some quite, impossible to reconcile conflicts of statement, especially when no files of the publication concerned could be found. For instance, the desire of publishers to acquire long life for their papers has in some cases caused the papers to accrete age simul- taneously at both ends of their careers. In the newspaper directories for 1871 to 1876, 1868 is given as the year in which a certain paper was established. By 1880 this date had receded to 1864, and, gaining momentum, by 1881 had gone to 1861. Sometimes these dates are changed arbi- trarily; more often, though, antiquity is acquired by fasten- ing paternity upon some preceding publication. This phenomenon has been a source of confusion, and probably of error. Possibly many papers are linked in series that have had no other than a chronological relation.


I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the large number of persons whom I cannot mention individually : editors, former editors, librarians, members of the State Historical Society, and others, who to the number of nearly fourteen hundred have contributed to the making of this compilation. Special acknowledgement is due President Edmund Janes James, of the University of Illinois; Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, Librarian of the State Historical


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PREFACE


Library; Miss Caroline McIlvain, Librarian of the Chicago Historical Society; Mr. John Vance Cheney, formerly Librarian of the Newberry Library; Mr. Ensley Moore, of Jacksonville; Mr. Paul Selby, of Chicago; Mr. John W. Merritt, of Springfield; Dr. J. F. Snyder, of Virginia, for the use of his unpublished history of the newspapers of Cass County and for many helpful suggestions; Mr. Herbert E. Fleming, of Chicago, for the use of much unpublished material, as well as his published study of the periodicals of Chicago; and Professor Alvord for much editorial kind- ness. F. W. S.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


PAGE


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


. xxi


HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION


· XXV


KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS, ETC. . BIBLIOGRAPHY


· cvi


ABINGDON, KNOX COUNTY


ALBANY, WHITESIDE COUNTY.


1 2 I 2


ALBION, EDWARDS COUNTY


2


ALEDO, MERCER COUNTY


2


ALEXIS, WARREN COUNTY


3


ALGONQUIN, McHENRY COUNTY


3


ALTAMONT, EFFINGHAM COUNTY


3


ALTON, MADISON COUNTY


3


ALTONA, KNOX COUNTY


9


AMBOY, LEE COUNTY


9


ANNA, UNION COUNTY


IO


APPLE RIVER, JO DAVIESS COUNTY


II


ARCOLA, DOUGLAS COUNTY


II


ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, COOK COUNTY ASHKUM, IROQUOIS COUNTY .


II


ASHLAND, CASS COUNTY


II


ASHLEY, WASHINGTON COUNTY


12


ASHTON, LEE COUNTY


12


ASSUMPTION, CHRISTIAN COUNTY


I2


ASTORIA, FULTON COUNTY


I2


ATLANTA, LOGAN COUNTY


I2


AUBURN, SANGAMON COUNTY


13


AUGUSTA, HANCOCK COUNTY .


I3


AURORA, KANE COUNTY


13


AVA, JACKSON COUNTY .


17


AVON, FULTON COUNTY


17


BARRINGTON STATION, COOK COUNTY


17


BARRY, PIKE COUNTY


17


BATAVIA, KANE COUNTY


I8


BEARDSTOWN, CASS COUNTY


18


BEECHER, WILL COUNTY


20


BELLEVILLE, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


20


BELLFLOWER, MCLEAN COUNTY


25


ix


II


CONTENTS


BELVIDERE, BOONE COUNTY . 25


BEMENT, PIATT COUNTY


26


BENSON, WOODFORD COUNTY


26


BENTON, FRANKLIN COUNTY .


26


BIGGSVILLE, HENDERSON COUNTY


BLANDINSVILLE, MCDONOUGH COUNTY BLOOMINGTON, MCLEAN COUNTY BLUE ISLAND, COOK COUNTY :


27 27 27 32


BLUFFS, SCOTT COUNTY


32


BRADFORD, STARK COUNTY


32


BRAIDWOOD, WILL COUNTY


32 33 33


BRISTOL, KENDALL COUNTY .


33


BUCKINGHAM, KANKAKEE COUNTY .


33


BUCKLEY, IROQUOIS COUNTY .


34


BUDA, BUREAU COUNTY


BUNKER HILL, MACOUPIN COUNTY.


34 34 34 35


BUSHNELL, MCDONOUGH COUNTY . BYRON, OGLE COUNTY .


CAIRO, ALEXANDER COUNTY


35


CALEDONIA, PULASKI COUNTY


CAMBRIDGE, HENRY COUNTY .


CAMP POINT, ADAMS COUNTY


CANTON, FULTON COUNTY


CAPRON, BOONE COUNTY


CARBONDALE, JACKSON COUNTY


CARLINVILLE, MACOUPIN COUNTY


CARLYLE, CLINTON COUNTY .


CARMI, WHITE COUNTY


44


CARROLLTON, GREENE COUNTY


44


CARTHAGE, HANCOCK COUNTY


CASEY, CLARK COUNTY


45 46 46


CENTRALIA, MARION COUNTY.


46


CHAMPAIGN, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


47


CHANDLERVILLE, CASS COUNTY


49


CHARLESTON, COLES Com" SUUNII


49


CHATSWORTH LIVINGSTON COUNTY


50


CHEBAN "JE, IROQUOIS AND KANKAKEE COUNTIES CHF- .NOA, MCLEAN COUNTY


50


CHERRY VALLEY, WINNEBAGO COUNTY


5I


CHESTER, RANDOLPH COUNTY


51


CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY


52


CHILLICOTHE, PEORIA COUNTY


150


BRIGHTON, MACOUPIN COUNTY


BRIMFIELD, PEORIA COUNTY .


38 38 38 39


40 40 4I 42


CENTRAL CITY, MARION COUNTY


50


CONTENTS


X1


CHRISMAN, EDGAR COUNTY


150


CLAY CITY, CLAY COUNTY


150


CLAYTON, ADAMS COUNTY


150


CLEMENT, CLINTON COUNTY


151


CLIFTON, IROQUOIS COUNTY


151


CLINTON, DE WITT COUNT ·· COBDEN, UNION COUNTY


151 I53


COLCHESTER, MCDONOUGH COUNTY


153


COLLINSVILLE, MADISON COUNTY


I53


COMMERCE, HANCOCK COUNTY


I53


COMPTON, LEE COUNTY


153


CORNELLVILLE, LIVINGSTON COUNTY


153


COULTERVILLE, RANDOLPH COUNTY


153


COWDEN, SHELBY COUNTY


154


CRESTON, OGLE COUNTY


154 154


DAKOTA, STEPHENSON COUNTY


154


DALLAS CITY, HANCOCK COUNTY


154 154


DANVERS, MCLEAN COUNTY


155


DANVILLE, VERMILLION COUNTY


155


DAVIS, STEPHENSON COUNTY


156


DAVIS JUNCTION, OGLE COUNTY


156


DECATUR, MACON COUNTY


156


DE KALB, DE KALB COUNTY


160


DELAVAN, TAZEWELL COUNTY


160


DE SOTO, JACKSON COUNTY .


161


DES PLAINES, COOK COUNTY .


161


DIXON, LEE COUNTY


161


DOLTON, COOK COUNTY.


162


DUNDEE, KANE COUNTY


163


DUNLEITH, JO DAVIESS COUNTY


163


DU QUOIN, PERRY COUNTY


163


DURAND, WINNEBAGO COUNTY


164


DWIGHT, LIVINGSTON COUNTY


164


EARLVILLE, LA SALLE COUNTY


164


EAST ST. LOUIS, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


165


EDWARDSVILLE, MADISON COUNTY


166


EFFINGHAM, EFFINGHAM COUNTY


169


ELDORADO, SALINE COUNTY


170


ELGIN, KANE COUNTY


170


ELIZABETHTOWN, HARDIN COUNTY


I72


ELMWOOD, PEORIA COUNTY


I72


EL PASO, WOODFORD COUNTY


I73


ENFIELD, WHITE COUNTY


I73


CRETE, WILL COUNTY


DANA, LA SALLE COUNTY


xii


CONTENTS


ENGLEWOOD, COOK COUNTY .


I73


ERIE, WHITESIDE COUNTY


I73


EUREKA, WOODFORD COUNTY


173


EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY


I74


EWING, FRANKLIN COUNTY


174


EWINGTON, EFFINGHAM COUNTY EXETER, SCOTT COUNTY


I75


FAIRBURY, LIVINGSTON COUNTY


175


FAIRFIELD, WAYNE COUNTY .


175


FARINA, FAYETTE COUNTY


177


FARMER CITY, DE WITT COUNTY


177


FARMINGTON, FULTON COUNTY


179


FLORA, CLAY COUNTY .


179


FORRESTON, OGLE COUNTY


179


FRANKLIN GROVE, LEE COUNTY


180


FREEPORT, STEPHENSON COUNTY


181


FULTON, WHITESIDE COUNTY


182


GALESBURG, KNOX COUNTY


184 I86


GALVA, HENRY COUNTY


I87 I88 I88


GENEVA, KANE COUNTY


189


GIBSON CITY, FORD COUNTY


189 189


GILLESPIE, MACOUPIN COUNTY


189


GIRARD, MACOUPIN COUNTY .


190


GOLCONDA, POPE COUNTY


19I


GRAFTON, JERSEY COUNTY


I9I


GRAND DETOUR, OGLE COUNTY


I91


GRAND TOWER, JACKSON COUNTY .


191


GRANT PARK, KANKAKEE COUNTY


IO2


GRANVILLE, PUTNAM COUNTY


192


GRAYVILLE, WHITE COUNTY .


192


GREENFIELD, GREENE COUNTY


192


GREENUP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY


193


GREENVILLE, BOND COUNTY .


193


GRIDLEY, MCLEAN COUNTY


194


GRIGGSVILLE, PIKE COUNTY


194


HAMILTON, HANCOCK COUNTY


195


HAMPSHIRE, KANE COUNTY .


195


HARDIN, CALHOUN COUNTY .


195


HARRISBURG, SALINE COUNTY


195


HARVARD, MCHENRY COUNTY


196


180


GALENA, JO DAVIESS COUNTY


GARDNER, GRUNDY COUNTY


GENESEO, HENRY COUNTY


GENOA, DE KALB COUNTY


GILMAN, IROQUOIS COUNTY


175


CONTENTS


xiii


HAVANA, MASON COUNTY


196


HENNEPIN, PUTNAM COUNTY .


HENRY, MARSHALL COUNTY .


HIGHLAND, MADISON COUNTY


HILLSBORO, MONTGOMERY COUNTY HINCKLEY, DE KALB COUNTY HOMER, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


199 201


HOOPESTON, VERMILLION COUNTY


HUEY, CLINTON COUNTY


HUTSONVILLE, CRAWFORD COUNTY


HYDE PARK, COOK COUNTY .


ILLINOISTOWN, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


ILLIOPOLIS, SANGAMON COUNTY


IPAVA, FULTON COUNTY


JACKSONVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY


JEFFERSONVILLE, WAYNE COUNTY


JERSEYVILLE, JERSEY COUNTY


JOLIET, WILL COUNTY


207 208


JONESBORO, UNION COUNTY


JUBILEE COLLEGE, ROBIN'S NEST, PEORIA COUNTY.


209 209


KANKAKEE, KANKAKEE COUNTY


210


KANSAS, EDGAR COUNTY


KASKASKIA, RANDOLPH COUNTY


211


KEITHSBURG, MERCER COUNTY


213


KENNEY, DE WITT COUNTY


214


KEWANEE, HENRY COUNTY


214


KINMUNDY, MARION COUNTY


215 215 216


KYTE RIVER, OGLE COUNTY .


216


LACON, MARSHALL COUNTY .


216


LA HARPE, HANCOCK COUNTY


217


LAKE ZURICH, LAKE COUNTY LAMOILLE, BUREAU COUNTY .


217 218


LANARK, CARROLL COUNTY


218


LANE (NOW ROCHELLE), OGLE COUNTY .


218


LA ROSE, MARSHALL COUNTY


218


LA SALLE, LA SALLE COUNTY


219


LAWNRIDGE, MARSHALL COUNTY


219


LAWRENCEVILLE, LAWRENCE COUNTY


220


LEBANON, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


220


LEE, LEE COUNTY


221


LEMONT, COOK COUNTY


. 22I


LENA, STEPHENSON COUNTY


. 221


197 198 199


201 201 201


201 202


202 202 202 202 206 206


KANE, GREENE COUNTY


KIRKWOOD, WARREN COUNTY


KNOXVILLE, KNOX COUNTY


xiv


CONTENTS


LE ROY, MCLEAN COUNTY .


222


LEWISTOWN, FULTON COUNTY


222


LEXINGTON, MCLEAN COUNTY


223


LINCOLN, LOGAN COUNTY


223


LITCHFIELD, MONTGOMERY COUNTY LITTLE FORT, LAKE COUNTY


227


LITTLE ROCK, KENDALL COUNTY


227


LOCKPORT, WILL COUNTY


227


LODA, IROQUOIS COUNTY


2 28


LONG POINT, LIVINGSTON COUNTY


228


LOSTANT, LA SALLE COUNTY .


228


LOUISVILLE, CLAY COUNTY


228


LOVINGTON, MOULTRIE COUNTY


229


LOWELL, LA SALLE COUNTY


229


LOW POINT, WOODFORD COUNTY


229


LYNDON, WHITESIDE COUNTY


229


MCHENRY, McHENRY COUNTY


229


MCLEANSBORO, HAMILTON COUNTY


229


MACOMB, MCDONOUGH COUNTY


231


MACON, MACON COUNTY .


232


MAGNOLIA, HENRY COUNTY .


232


MAHOMET, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


232


MAJORITY POINT, CUMBERLAND COUNTY


232 232


MANCHESTER, SCOTT COUNTY


232


MANSFIELD, PIATT COUNTY


232


MAQUON, KNOX COUNTY


233


MARENGO, McHENRY COUNTY


233 233


MAROA, MACON COUNTY


234


MARSEILLES, LA SALLE COUNTY


235


MARSHALL, CLARK COUNTY .


235


MARTINSVILLE, CLARK COUNTY


237 237 237


MASON, EFFINGHAM COUNTY


238


MASON CITY, MASON COUNTY


238


MATTOON, COLES COUNTY


238


MEDORA, MACOUPIN COUNTY.


239


MENDON, ADAMS COUNTY


240


MENDOTA, LA SALLE COUNTY


240


MEREDOSIA, MORGAN COUNTY


24I


METAMORA, WOODFORD COUNTY


24I


METROPOLIS CITY, MASSAC COUNTY


24I


MIDDLEPORT, IROQUOIS COUNTY


· 242


MALTA, DE KALB COUNTY


MARION, WILLIAMSON COUNTY


MARYSVILLE, VERMILLION COUNTY


MASCOUTAH, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


226


XV


CONTENTS


MILFORD, IROQUOIS COUNTY .


243


MILLINGTON, KENDALL COUNTY


243


MILTON, PIKE COUNTY .


243


MINIER, TAZEWELL COUNTY .


243


MINONK, WOODFORD COUNTY


243


MOKENA, WILL COUNTY


244


MOLINE, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY


244


MOMENCE, KANKAKEE COUNTY


245 245


MONMOUTH, WARREN COUNTY


246


MONROE, OGLE COUNTY


246


MONTICELLO, PIATT COUNTY .


246


MORRIS, GRUNDY COUNTY


247


MORRISON, WHITESIDE COUNTY


248


MORRISONVILLE, CHRISTIAN COUNTY


248


MOUND CITY, PULASKI COUNTY


249


MT. CARMEL, WABASH COUNTY


250


MT. CARROLL, CARROLL COUNTY


251


MT. FOREST, COOK COUNTY .


252


MT. MORRIS, OGLE COUNTY .


252


MT. PULASKI, LOGAN COUNTY


253


MT. STERLING, BROWN COUNTY


253


MT. VERNON, JEFFERSON COUNTY .


254


MOWEAQUA, SHELBY COUNTY


256


MURPHYSBORO, JACKSON COUNTY


256


NAPERVILLE, DU PAGE COUNTY


257


NAPLES, SCOTT COUNTY.


258


NASHVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY


258


NAUVOO, HANCOCK COUNTY .


260


NEOGA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY


261


NEPONSET, BUREAU COUNTY .


261


NEWARK, KENDALL COUNTY .


262


NEW ATHENS, ST. CLAIR COUNTY .


262


NEW BERLIN, SANGAMON COUNTY .


262


NEW BOSTON, MERCER COUNTY


262


NEW BURNSIDE, JOHNSON COUNTY


262


NEWMAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY .


262


NEW RUTLAND, LA SALLE COUNTY


262


NEWTON, JASPER COUNTY


263


NEW WINDSOR, MERCER COUNTY


263


NIANTIC, MACON COUNTY


263


NILWOOD, MACOUPIN COUNTY


263


NOKOMIS, MONTGOMERY COUNTY


263


NORMAL, MCLEAN COUNTY


264


NORRIS CITY, JOHNSON COUNTY


264


MONEE, WILL COUNTY .


xvi


CONTENTS


NOYESVILLE, COOK COUNTY . · .


· 264


NUNDA (now NORTH CRYSTAL LAKE), McHENRY COUNTY . 265


OAKLAND, COLES COUNTY


265


ODELL, LIVINGSTON COUNTY .


265


ODIN, MARION COUNTY.


265


O'FALLON, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


265


OLNEY, RICHLAND COUNTY


265


ONARGA, IROQUOIS COUNTY


267


ONEIDA, KNOX COUNTY


267


OQUAWKA, HENDERSON COUNTY


267


OREGON, OGLE COUNTY


268


ORION, HENRY COUNTY


269


OSWEGO, KENDALL COUNTY


270


OTTAWA, LA SALLE COUNTY .


270


PALATINE, COOK COUNTY


27I


PALESTINE, RANDOLPH COUNTY


272


PANA, CHRISTIAN COUNTY


272


PARIS, EDGAR COUNTY .


273


PARK RIDGE, COOK COUNTY


274


PAW PAW, LEE COUNTY


275


PAXTON, FORD COUNTY


275


PAYSON, ADAMS COUNTY


276


PECATONICA, WINNEBAGO COUNTY .


276


PEKIN, TAZEWELL COUNTY


276


PEORIA, PEORIA COUNTY


278


PEOTONE, WILL COUNTY


282


PERRY, PIKE COUNTY .


282


PERU, LA SALLE COUNTY


282


PETERSBURG, MENARD COUNTY


283


PHILO, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY .


283


PINCKNEYVILLE, PERRY COUNTY


283


PIPER CITY, FORD COUNTY


284 284


PLAINFIELD, WILL COUNTY


285


PLANO, KENDALL COUNTY


285


PLYMOUTH, HANCOCK COUNTY


286


POLO, OGLE COUNTY .


286


PONTIAC, LIVINGSTON COUNTY


287


PORT BYRON, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY


288


PRAIRIE CITY, MCDONOUGH COUNTY


288


PRINCETON, BUREAU COUNTY.


289


PRINCEVILLE, PEORIA COUNTY


290


PROPHETSTOWN, WHITESIDE COUNTY


290


QUINCY, ADAMS COUNTY


290


RANSOM, LA SALLE COUNTY


294


PITTSFIELD, PIKE COUNTY


CONTENTS


xvii


RANTOUL, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


294


RARITAN, HENDERSON COUNTY


295


RAYMOND, MONTGOMERY COUNTY


295


RED BUD, RANDOLPH COUNTY


295


RICHMOND, CLARK COUNTY


296


RICHMOND, McHENRY COUNTY RICHVIEW, WASHINGTON COUNTY


296 296 296 296


RIVERTON, SANGAMON COUNTY


ROANOKE, WOODFORD COUNTY


297


ROBERTS, FORD COUNTY


297


ROBINSON, CRAWFORD COUNTY


297 297


ROCK FALLS, WHITESIDE COUNTY .


298 298


ROCK ISLAND, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY


ROCK RUN


302 305 305


ROCKTON, WINNEBAGO COUNTY


3º5


ROCKWELL, LA SALLE COUNTY


305


ROODHOUSE, GREENE COUNTY


305 306 306 306 308


ST. ANNE, KANKAKEE COUNTY


308 308


ST. ELMO, FAYETTE COUNTY . SALEM, MARION COUNTY


309 309 3II


SANDWICH, DE KALB COUNTY


31I


SAVANNA, CARROLL COUNTY .


312


SAYBROOK, MCLEAN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE, MACOUPIN COUNTY


312 313


SECOR, WOODFORD COUNTY .


313


SENECA, LA SALLE COUNTY


313


SHABBONA, DE KALB COUNTY


313


SHANNON, CARROLL COUNTY .


313


SHAWNEETOWN, GALLATIN COUNTY. SHELBYVILLE, SHELBY COUNTY


314


SHELDON, IROQUOIS COUNTY .


318


SHERIDAN, LA SALLE COUNTY


318


SHIPMAN, MACOUPIN COUNTY


319


SOMONAUK, DE KALB COUNTY


319


SOUTH CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY


· 319


RIVERSIDE, COOK COUNTY


ROCHELLE, OGLE COUNTY


ROCKFORD, WINNEBAGO COUNTY


ROCK SPRING, ST. CLAIR COUNTY


ROSEVILLE, WARREN COUNTY ROSSVILLE, VERMILLION COUNTY RUSHVILLE, SCHUYLER COUNTY RUTLAND, LA SALLE COUNTY


ST. CHARLES, KANE COUNTY


SANDOVAL, MARION COUNTY .


316


xviii


CONTENTS


SPARLAND, MARSHALL COUNTY


· 319


SPARTA, RANDOLPH COUNTY .


319


SPRINGFIELD, SANGAMON COUNTY


321


STANFORD, MCLEAN COUNTY


327


STAUNTON, MACOUPIN COUNTY


327


STEELEVILLE, RANDOLPH COUNTY STERLING, WHITESIDE COUNTY


327


STEWARTSON, SHELBY COUNTY


227 329


STONE FORT, SALINE COUNTY


329


STREATOR, LA SALLE COUNTY


329


SULLIVAN, MOULTRIE COUNTY


330


SUMNER, LAWRENCE COUNTY SYCAMORE, DE KALB COUNTY TALLULA, MENARD COUNTY


331


TAMAROA, PERRY COUNTY


332


TAMPICO, WHITESIDE COUNTY


333 333


THOMPSON, CARROLL COUNTY


334


TISKILWA, BUREAU COUNTY .


335


TOLEDO, CUMBERLAND COUNTY


335


TOLONO, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


335


TONICA, LA SALLE COUNTY


335


TOULON, STARK COUNTY


335


TREMONT, TAZEWELL COUNTY


336


TRENTON, CLINTON COUNTY


337


TROY, MADISON COUNTY


337


TURNER JUNCTION, DU PAGE COUNTY


337


TUSCOLA, DOUGLAS COUNTY .


337


UPPER ALTON, MADISON COUNTY


338


URBANA, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


338


UTICA, LA SALLE COUNTY


339


VANDALIA, FAYETTE COUNTY .


340


VARNA, MARSHALL COUNTY


344


VERMONT, FULTON COUNTY


344


VERSAILLES, BROWN COUNTY


344


VIENNA, JOHNSON COUNTY


344


VIRDEN, MACOUPIN COUNTY .


345


VIRGINIA, CASS COUNTY


345


WALNUT, BUREAU COUNTY


348


WARREN, JO DAVIESS COUNTY


348


WARSAW, HANCOCK COUNTY .


348


WASHBURN, WOODFORD COUNTY


349


WASHINGTON, TAZEWELL COUNTY


349


WATERLOO, MONROE COUNTY


350


WATERMAN, DE KALB COUNTY


35J


331


332


TAYLORVILLE, CHRISTIAN COUNTY


CONTENTS


xix


WATSEKA, IROQUOIS COUNTY


351


WAUKEGAN, LAKE COUNTY


352


WAVERLY, MORGAN COUNTY .


353


354


354


354


354


WESTON, MCLEAN COUNTY


355


WHEATON, DU PAGE COUNTY


355


WHITE HALL, GREENE COUNTY


355


WILMINGTON, WILL COUNTY .


356


WINCHESTER, SCOTT COUNTY


357


WINDSOR, SHELBY COUNTY


358


WOODFORD, WOODFORD COUNTY


358


WOODHULL, HENRY COUNTY .


358


WOODSTOCK, McHENRY COUNTY


359


WYOMING, STARK COUNTY


360


YATES CITY, KNOX COUNTY .


360


YORKVILLE, KENDALL COUNTY


361


YOUNG AMERICA, WARREN COUNTY


361


LIST OF ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS IN ILLINOIS LIBRARIES


363


CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY


366


JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY


377


NEWBERRY LIBRARY .


378


CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY


381


STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY


386


UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY .


. 392


IN LIBRARIES OUTSIDE OF ILLINOIS


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS


398


WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY


402


MERCANTILE LIBRARY


404


BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY .


404


AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY


405


LENOX LIBRARY


407


NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY


408


CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE


416


CHRONOLOGICAL LIST 1814-1850


417


INDEXES


INDEX TO NEWSPAPERS .


429


INDEX TO NAMES .


533


INDEX TO COUNTIES


605


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FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN ILLINOIS


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FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHICAGO


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" ILLINOIS ADVOCATE " . facing page 34I


HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION


INTRODUCTION


PRELIMINARY


This introduction is the result of an effort to sketch a historical background for the disconnected bibliographical material which forms the body of this work. It is not in- tended as a history of the newspapers and periodicals of Illinois; but, as one of our county historians has said, the newspaper business with us has been a "halcyon and vocif- erous proceeding," and some outline such as this may be needed to find the halcyon if not the vociferous in the life history of our newspapers and periodicals. Especially is it purposed to deal with the beginnings in Illinois journalism, and to a less extent to suggest the relation of the newspaper to the manifold successive elements that have entered in the making of the state - population, transportation, communi- cation, politics, education, and other materials and methods of economic and social development; and to record some important tendencies and certain isolated facts not now conveniently accessible elsewhere.


The conditions under which the first Illinois newspaper was established, in 1814, included many disadvantages, which made any other than a meager and tenuous subsistence for it impossible. The population was small and widely distributed; the means of communication were merely rudi- mentary and frequently inoperative; and both money and labor were exceedingly scarce. That a newspaper was started as early as 1814 was due not so much to business as to political reasons: there was United States and territorial


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printing to be done; and the politicians of the territory, including a large proportion of the male population, were yearning toward statehood.


The population of the territory of Illinois had increased slowly until 1813, but with the cessation of Indian raids after the close of the war of 1812, and the passage of the pre- emption act of 1813, a new epoch in immigration began.1 A land office was opened in Kaskaskia in 1814, and the influx of permanent settlers was much increased. The total popu- lation at that time may have been well toward twenty thou- sand, but it was thinly distributed. The village and vicinity of Kaskaskia, which in 1815 contained between seven hun- dred and one thousand persons, was least sparsely settled .? Gallatin, with Shawneetown as its chief village, was the most populous county on the east side of the territory. As late as 1818 it contained but thirty-two hundred persons.3 Shawneetown, where the second paper in the state was established, numbered between thirty and forty families.4


A fact that doubtless tended to hinder the beginning of newspapers in Illinois was the presence, on two sides of the populated area, of larger centers of population than any in Illinois: Vincennes on the east, and St. Louis on the west. In the first a newspaper had been established a full decade before the Illinois Herald was issued - so well established that it is still published; in the second the Missouri Gazette began, in 1808, a career which it has continued, under various names, to the present. Other papers helped to supply the needs of the Illinois settlers. In 1816 the citizens of Shaw-


1 Pooley, Settlement of Illinois, 1830-1850, p. 318.


2 Edwards, History of Illinois, 254.


3 Dana, Sketches of the Western Country, 153.


" But John Woods, in Two Years' Residence in the . . . Illinois Country, says that in 1819 Shawneetown was "a brisk place" and included about eighty houses.


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neetown gave notice through the papers of Kaskaskia, Frankfort (Kentucky), and Nashville (Tennessee), that they would apply to the legislature of Illinois for the establishment of a bank at that place.5 These papers, supported by the population of towns larger than any in the new territory, doubtless delayed both the beginning and the spread of newspapers in Illinois.


Means of communication were meager, primitive, and did not function with either despatch or regularity. The earliest settlements were naturally on the waterways - the Wabash, Ohio, Mississippi, and Kaskaskia rivers. No roads or mail routes were opened until 1805. The first mail route was established in that year from Vincennes to Caho- kia; & the second from Vincennes to Shawneetown in 1806. In 1810 routes were established to St. Louis by way of Kas- kaskia, Prairie du Rocher, and Cahokia; from Kaskaskia to Cape Girardeau, by way of St. Genevieve; from Louis- ville to Shawneetown; and in 1814 to Johnson Court House (now Vienna). Over these routes mail was carried regularly once or twice a week, except in bad weather, or when the roads were impassable.7 But it will appear later that even when the mail was regularly carried, the whole postal system was so bad that regularity and promptness in the arrival of expected mail were never assured.


The transportation of freight suffered even more serious vicissitudes than the distribution of the mail, and the pros- pective publisher of the first newspaper may well have felt himself at some disadvantage in being as remote from the source of his supply of paper and equipment as was Kaskas-


5 Burnham, An Early Illinois Newspaper, Pubs. Ill. State Hist. Soc., No. 8, p. 182.


8 Boggess, Settlement of Illinois, 1775-1830, p. 131.


7 Ibid.


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kia from Cincinnati or Frankfort. All goods had to be carried down the Ohio on flatboats, and then poled up the Mississippi, or hauled overland by wagon. The rivers were frequently too high or too low for ease of navigation, and the roads frequently offered insuperable difficulties.


Such were some of the conditions in Illinois in 1814, when the first newspaper was established. Other circumstances and the changes that came with the growth of population will appear in the account of the papers of the first decade and later.


THE FIRST DECADE


The first period in the history of newspapers in Illinois, which begins with the founding of the Illinois Herald in 1814, closes naturally and conveniently with the momentous con- vention election held in August, 1824. In the first period of ten years five separate papers were established, and all continued until the election.




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