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TIMES, June 12, 1852-October 18, 1853: A Free Soil paper, daily and tri-weekly, established in connection with the Western Citizen and discontinued when that paper was changed to Free West. It was at first published by Lee and Townsend; after eighteen numbers, by E. C. Townsend and Company; after the twenty- first number by Lyman E. D. Wolf; edited and published after no. 45 by C. T. Gaston; published after No. 86 by Gaston, Muir, and Company. By No. 125, November 16, 1852, Zebina Eastman had become editor and publisher. HF
WESTERN TABLET, February 7, 1852-1855: A Catholic literary periodical published by Daniel O'Hara. HF
1 Herbert E. Fleming, Literary Interests of Chicago, 390.
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CHRISTIAN BANKER, January 8, 1853- - (?): Only eight numbers were issued. Published by Seth Paine and John W. Holmes as an advertisement for their bank. For an account of that curious institution see Andreas, Chicago, vol. I, pp. 539-544. F CHRISTIAN SHOEMAKER, 1853: Published for only a short time by F. V. Pitney as a travesty on the Christian Banker.
COURANT, 1853-1854+: An Independent daily edited by William Duane Wilson. Sold to Messrs. Cook, Cameron, and Patterson, and changed to F
YOUNG AMERICA, +July 4, 1854+ : A Democratic paper edited by J. W. Patterson, published by Cook, Cameron, and Patter- son. Daily and weekly. It was soon changed to F
CHICAGO DAILY TIMES,1 + August 30, 1854-1860+ : The founders and publishers of the Times were Isaac Cook, James W. Sheahan and Daniel Cameron. It was a Democratic daily, edited by James W. Sheahan, 1854-1856; James W. Sheahan and Daniel Cameron, 1856-1858; Sheahan and William Price, 1858-1860; published by Cook and Company. In 1860 Cyrus H. McCormick, owner of the Herald, purchased the Times and consolidated the two papers under the name of the HANF
TIMES AND HERALD, +1860- - (?)+: E. W. McComas was placed in editorial charge. The paper appears to have assumed very soon the title of H
DAILY CHICAGO TIMES, +1860(?)-June 20, 1861+: Under the care of Mr. McComas, who was a journalist from Virginia, the paper became an exponent of the Southern Democracy. Mc- Cormick was proprietor and Daniel Cameron publisher until June 8, 1861, when Wilbur F. Storey became editor and pro- prietor. From late in 1860 to June 20, 1861, the Times was numbered vol. I, until no. 275, June 21, 1861, when vol. 7 was used and the title changed from Daily Chicago Times to NAH
I President Lincoln contributed the following anonymous note to the Washing- ton Chronicle, June 6, 1863:
"EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE: In your issue of this morning you have an article on the Chicago Times. Being an Illinoisan, I happen to know that much of the article is incorrect. As I remember, upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Democratic newspapers at Chicago went over to the opposition. Thereupon the Times was established by the friends of the administration, Sena- tor Douglas being the most prominent in establishing it. A man by the name of James Sheahan, from this city, was its first and only editor nearly if not quite all the remainder of the senator's life. On the political separation between Mr. Buchanan and Senator Douglas, the Times adhered to the senator, and was the ablest paper in his support through his senatorial contest with Mr. Lincoln. Since the last presidential election certainly, perhaps since Senator Douglas's death, Mr. Sheahan left the Times; the Times since then has been identical with the Times before then in little more than the name. The writer hereof is not well enough posted to say but that your article in other respects is correct."- Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, viii, 292, 293.
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CHICAGO TIMES, +June 20, 1861-March 4, 1895+: After the emancipation proclamation, the Times ceased to favor the prose- cution of the war, and was bitter in its denunciations of Lin -- coln's administration. It became such a radical "copperhead sheet" that General Ambrose E. Burnside, in command of the Department of the Northwest, with headquarters at Cincinnati, issued an order for the suppression of the Times, and the com- mander at Camp Douglas was charged with the execution of the order. On the morning of June 3, 1863, soldiers marched in- to the press room and took possession. Mass meetings were held during the day in advocacy of free speech and a free press. A petition to President Lincoln to revoke the order was signed by some of the most prominent Republicans and business men of the city, and Senator Lyman Trumbull and Isaac N. Arnold tele- graphed personally to Mr. Lincoln to the same effect. The order was revoked by the President and publication was resumed June 5. After the presidential campaign of 1868 the Times ceased to be a party organ, claimed to be Independent, and made many vigorous onslaughts on the Democratic party. However, it supported the Democratic candidates of 1876, 1880 and 1884. In the fall of 1863, Franc B. Wilkie joined the editorial staff, and in 1867 André Matteson became a part of the editorial force for the second time. Ananias Worden was manager from 1861 to 1865; H. B. Chandler, 1865-1870; Mr. Storey became sole owner in 1870, and made A. L. Patterson manager. The establishment was destroyed in the great fire of 1871, but reappeared very soon after. Mr. Storey, who had been the leading spirit of the paper for over twenty years, died in October, 1884 ; the paper went into the hands of a receiver and was sold in 1887 to a new Chicago Times Company headed by James J. West, who was manager. He was ousted later, and succeeded by Huiskamp Brothers, with Joseph R. Dunlap as editor. In 1891 Carter H. Harrison formed the Newspaper Company and bought the Times. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., was made business manager, and Preston Harrison managing editor. March 4, 1895, it was joined to the Herald -hence Times-Herald, which on March 28, 1901, was consolidated with the Record as the Record-Herald. EWDNAHSUC
EVANGELIST, 1853-1855+: A paper representing the tenets of the New School of Presbyterians. Edited by an association of Pres- byterian clergymen, the resident editors being Rev. H. Curtis and Rev. R. W. Patterson; associate editors, G. W. Gale, S. G. Spears, W. H. Spencer, A. Eddy, and S. D. Pilkin. In April, 1854, Rev. Joseph Gaston Wilson took editorial charge. In
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1855 it was merged into the New York Evangelist, which there- after had a northwestern editor in Chicago. F
HORNER'S CHICAGO AND WESTERN GUIDE, 1853: Monthly. Pub- lished by W. B. Horner; purported to contain all information for traveling by railroad, steamboat, and stage from Chicago to every town in the Northwest, and to any important city in the United States. F
NEW CHURCH INDEPENDENT AND REVIEW, 1853 to date (1880) : A monthly, devoted to Swedenborgian interests. John S. Weller was editor and Weller and Metcalf were publishers, 1874-1880. NORTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 5, 1853 to date : A weekly, edited by James V. Watson, 1853-1856; Rev. Thomas M. Eddy, 1856-1868. It was published by Swormated and Poe for the Northwestern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and printed by Charles Philbrick. Rigidly anti-slavery. In 1868 the editorship was given to Rev. John Morrison Reid. Mr. Reid was succeeded in 1872 by Arthur Edwards, D.D., editor to 1901. David D. Thompson was editor 1901-1908; Charles M. Stuart in 1909. Hitchcock and Walden were pub- lishers from before 1869 until 1880, with Dr. Luke Hitchcock as manager. In 1880 Walden and Stowe became publishers; Cranston and Stowe, 1884- - (?); Jennings and Graham in 1907, and to date. WDUHF
OLIVE BRANCH OF THE WEST, 1853- - (?): Published by J. R. Balme, in the interest of Salem Baptist Church. F
SLOAN'S GARDEN CITY, 1853-1854(?) : A literary paper edited by Walter Sloan, a vender of patent medicines; published at first by Robert Fergus, afterward by Charles Scott and Company. The first few numbers contained a "Sloan's Column," in which his patent medicines were advertised. "Later Oscar B. Sloan, a son, became editor. The patent medicine notices disappeared. The paper became a pro-western literary organ of genuine merit, having, however, a trend toward the family-story type of literary appeal." It was merged in 1854 with the People's Paper of Bos- ton, which lived until 1870. WH
TRAVELER, 1853(?): Mentioned in the city directory of 1853 as managed by James M. Chatfield, John Chatfield, Jr., William B. Doolittle, and Lee Lars.
YOUTH'S WESTERN BANNER, 1853: A short-lived monthly juvenile publication devoted to temperance, morality, and religion. Edited and published by Isaac C. Smith and Company.
ATLANTIS, 1854: A monthly, edited by Christian Essellen.
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DEUTSCHE AMERIKANER, 1854: Edited by George Schtaeger. An anti-Nebraska paper; lasted but a few months.
HOMEOPATH, January, 1854-December, 1856: Bi-monthly. Edited by Drs. D. S. Smith, S. W. Graves, and R. Ludlam. It was a small non-professional magazine. Upon the death of Dr. S. W. Graves, Dr. D. A. Colton became one of the editors. Three yearly volumes of the magazine were completed. HJ
MAINE LAW ALLIANCE, 1854: A temperance paper, published by Hiram W. Jewell, with B. E. Hale, Rev. T. Yates, and Dr. Charles Jewett as editors. Short-lived.
PROTESTANT, January, 1854: Monthly. Hays and Thompson were publishers.
SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, January, 1854: A temperance paper edited by George R. Graham. Short-lived.
WESTERN PATHFINDER, 1854 to date (1856) : An advertising sheet published in the interest of travelers and real estate men. Owned and edited by W. B. Horner. Published by Horner and Crone.
ASHLAR, September, 1855 to date (1861) : A Masonic monthly pub- lished simultaneously in Chicago and Detroit. Established by Allyn Weston and conducted by him through three volumes. Then Charles Scott became proprietor; Weston remained editor. In January, 1861, Ashlar, “devoted to Masonry, gen- eral literature and progress," was edited by J. Adams Allen. H BANK-NOTE LIST, 1855 to date (1864) : A semi-monthly edited and published by Granger Adams, a banker. Devoted to reporting financial matters, with especial reference to the means of detecting counterfeits, and containing a report of the banks that were in an embarrassed condition or had ceased to be solvent. This paper appeared in the directory as late as 1862 as published by Mr. Adams. It is given in 1863 and 1864 as published by S. K. Reed.
BEOBACHTER VON MICHIGAN, 1855-1856: A Douglas paper edited by Committi and Becker.
COURIER, 1855: Issued by R. P. Hamilton.
WESTERN FARM JOURNAL, 1855 to date (1877): An agricultural paper. In 1875 Dr. G. Sprague was editor; G. Sprague, F. R. Sprague, and D. J. Walker were publishers; and F. R. Sprague was business manager. Printed at the office of the Homestead and Western Farm Journal, Des Moines, Iowa. It is probable that this paper was not published from Chicago prior to 1875.
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NATIONAL DEMOCRAT, 1855 to date (1860) : A daily Douglas paper ; edited by Dr. Ignatius Koch, published by J. E. Committi. Later editors were Koch and Schade, then Koch and Froehlich; later publishers were Michael Diversey, then Fritz Becker, 1857- 1859.
NATIVE AMERICAN, September 7, 1855-November, 1856: Started by William Weaver Danenhower, father of Lieutenant J. W. Danenhower, the Arctic explorer. Washington Wright was editor. A daily issued in the interest of the Native American party.
UNION, 1855 to date (1876) : A German Democratic paper, issued daily and weekly. Mention is made of a Sunday edition in the directories for 1866, 1869, 1870 and 1876. In 1869 it was called Westliche Unterhaltungs-Blätter; in 1876, the Belletristische Zeitung. The weekly edition only is mentioned in 1872 and 1873. Frederick Becker and Schlaeger were proprietors in 1861; Becker was sole proprietor, 1862-1863. In 1864 Edward Roesch was editor. F. Becker was publisher in that year and continued so until 1870. W. Bellinghausen and Company were editors and publishers, 1870-1872; the German Newspaper and Printing Company, proprietors and publishers, 1872-1873. Hermann Lieb was editor and publisher, 1873-1876. CE
WESTERN CRUSADER, 1855-1856+ : A temperance paper edited by Thos. Williams and Orlo W. Strong. Gerhard (1856) gives J. D. Dow and Company as publishers. Changed to
NORTHWESTERN HOME JOURNAL, +1856 -- (?): Edited by James B. Merwin and published by an association comprising F. H. Benson, J. M. Kennedy, O. W. Strong, R. L. Dunlap, and E. R. Bowen.
WESTERN GARLAND, 1855: A monthly, issued simultaneously in Chicago, Louisville, and St. Louis, devoted to "polite literature, art, science, home and foreign news." It was founded by Mrs. Harriet C. Lindsey and Son, with R. R. Lindsey as editor in Chicago. H
ABEND ZEITUNG, 1856(?)-1858(?): A German daily, published in 1856 by Committi and Becker. In 1858, published by Com- mitti and Bode, edited by Henry Ginal.
COMMERCIAL BULLETIN AND NORTHWESTERN REPORTER, 1856- -- (?): Edited by C. H. Scriven and John J. Gallagher.
COMMERCIAL LETTER, 1856-1868+ : A critical daily record of the flour, grain, live stock, and provision markets. P. L. Wells was editor and publisher until 1862; H. R. Hulburd, 1863; H. A. Newcomb and Company proprietors. Thomas M. Wignall editor, 1864; Thomas H. Wignall, editor and publisher, 1866-
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1868. In 1868 it was incorporated with Chicago Daily Com- mercial Report and Market Review. J
DEMOCRATIC BUGLE, 1856: Published by Charles Leib. Daily. F DEMOKRAT, 1856 to date (1880) : In 1877 W. Kuhl was manager.
In 1880 he was still manager, and the Demokrat Printing Com- pany were publishers.
FLOWER QUEEN, 1856-1857: Published by Higgins Brothers.
HERALD, 1856-1857: A daily edited by T. R. Dawley. Listed by Gerhard as daily and weekly, published by Cook and Company. MANFORD'S MAGAZINE, 1856 to date (1881) : A Universalist monthly, listed in Rowell, 1869, as Manford's Monthly Magazine. Rev. E. Manford and Mrs. H. B. Manford were editors in 1869; Rev. E. Manford was publisher, and the same is true until 1876, after which time Mr. and Mrs. Manford were editors and publishers. W. W. Clayton was associated with them as editor in 1871.
DAILY NEWS, September, 1856- - (?): Edited by Walter B. Sloan. F
DAILY PATRIOT, September 30-November, 1856: A Fillmore and Donelson campaign paper. F
PEN AND PENCIL, 1856: An art and story paper. Edited by T. R. Dawley and contributed to by T. Herbert Whipple. F PRAIRIE LEAF, 1856- - (?): A monthly, issued for a short time by D. B. Cooke and Company.
DAILY PRICE CURRENT, 1856-1857.
ROUNDS' PRINTERS CABINET, 1856 to date (1881): Published by Rounds and Langdon. In December, 1856, there was but one other journal in the United States that was devoted exclusively to the interest of the 'art preservative'- the Typographical Advertiser; Rounds' Cabinet was the first of that character in the northwest, the second in the United States in its date of issue, and the first monthly typographical journal in the Union. It is not listed in Rowell, 1869, but is given as an advertising sheet in newspaper directories, 1873-1876, with S. P. Rounds as publisher. Listed in Ayer, 1881, as a quarterly advertising sheet.
SVENSKA REPUBLIKANEN (Den Svenska Republikanen i Norra Amer- ika), +September, 1857-July, 1858: Established by the leaders of the Bishop Hill colony at Galva, and edited by S. Cronsioe. It was soon turned over to Cronsioe as his private property, and removed to Chicago. It was antagonistic to Hemlandet, and ultra liberal as to religion,- so much so that the name came to be in bad odor among a large class of the Swedish people.
SUNDAY VACUNA, Spring of 1856- - (?): The first exclusively Sunday paper in Chicago; named for the goddess of rural leisure.
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WESTERN ENTERPRISE, 1856-1857+: An agricultural weekly; merged in the Prairie Farmer. Edited by E. Porter Little.
Western Journal of Music, 1856-1857: Semi-monthly. Edited by William H. Currie, and published by R. G. Greene. It was a paper "devoted to literature and art . . . to the advancement of musical knowledge and interest, in the western states partic- ularly."
EVANGEL, 1857(?) ----- (?): Edited by J. G. Wilson. Mentioned in the city directory for 1857.
LE JOURNAL DE L'ILLINOIS, 1857-1858: First issued in Kankakee as a weekly on January 2, 1857, by A. Grandpré and Claude Petit, being the first French newspaper published in the state. In September, 1857, it was moved to Chicago under the same management. For one month it was issued semi-weekly, after which it was changed back to weekly.
DAILY LEDGER, 1857: Published by Barnes, Stewart, and Paine. Seth Paine was editor.
CHICAGO MAGAZINE, THE WEST AS IT Is, March-August, 1857 : Founded by the Mechanics' Institute, an organization for night- study, the object being partly to secure exchanges gratis for its library. Zebina Eastman was the editor; John Gager and Com- pany were the publishers. The magazine was devoted to liter- ature, biography, historical reminiscence, etc. Mr. H. E. Flem- ing mentions it as "the literary-historical magazine of highest tone." It was beautifully and profusely illustrated, and though it carried as many advertisements as were usual at that time, its expenses were greater than its receipts. The five numbers pub- lished were got out with increasing difficulty, and the magazine expired in August. According to Andreas, the failure was a great loss to the literary interests of the city. Monthly. CSH
MUSICAL REVIEW, 1857-1858: Edited by C. M. Cady; published by Higgins Brothers; and printed by Pool and Spaulding.
NORTHWESTERN BANK NOTE AND COUNTERFEIT REPORTER, 1857- 1858: Published by Isaac A. Pool. Semi-monthly.
NORTHWESTERN PRESBYTERIAN, 1857 to date (1869) : A weekly edited and published in 1869 by Rev. E. E. Erskine and Rev. David McKinney. Rev. J. B. McClure was associate editor. PRESBYTERIAN EXPOSITOR, 1857 to date (1860) : Monthly. HC
REAL ESTATE NEWS LETTER AND INSURANCE MONITOR, 1857-1858: Published monthly by Gallaher and Gilbert. Had an existence of only a few months.
REAL ESTATE REGISTER OR THE NORTHWEST, May, 1857-1858: Issued monthly. Edited and published by G. W. Yerby and Company. E
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CHICAGO RECORD, April, 1857-April 1, 1858+: Monthly. Edited and owned by James Grant Wilson. Devoted to religion, liter- ature, and fine arts. With vol. 2 the title was changed to ASCHW
CHURCH RECORD, +April 1, 1858-April 1, 1860+: With vol. 4. April 1, 1860, changed again to ASCHWF
CHICAGO RECORD, +April 1, 1860-March 15, 1862+ : A new num- bering was begun, but the old was resumed with vol. 4, no. 2. In March, 1862, Mr. Wilson sold the magazine to enter the Union army. In the issue for March 15, he says in his parting words that the publication has been a success. It was the pioneer paper of its kind published in the northwest. The purchaser was Rev. Thomas Smith, who in the March 15 issue said he would con- tinue it as ASHCW
NORTHWESTERN CHURCH, + March, 1862 to date (1865) : An Epis- copal church paper. Rev. Thomas Smith was proprietor and publisher, 1862-1865. WS
SATURDAY EVENING CHRONOTYPE, 1857: Edited by C. A. Wash- burn; continued three months.
SUNDAY LEADER, 1857 -- (?): The first exclusively Sunday news- paper of any permanence issued in Chicago. Published by S. P. Rounds; managing editor, Edward Bliss. It lived but a short time, though longer than Vacuna. A distinguishing feature was its chess column edited by Lewis Poulson.
SUNDAY HERALD, 1857(?)- - (?): It was started subsequent to the establishment of the Sunday Leader, in opposition to it. The Herald ran about a year.
TRESTLE BOARD, 1857- - (?): Edited and published by J. J. Clarkson in the interest of the Masonic fraternity.
DAILY UNION, 1857-1858: Issued by the Chicago Union Printing Company. Louis Schade was general editor; B. H. Meyers, city editor.
WELLS' COMMERCIAL EXPRESS AND WESTERN PRODUCE REPORTER, 1857-1871: Joel Henry Wells was editor and publisher until 1866; Wells and Vittum, 1866-1868; then Wells alone. At first weekly, then weekly and monthly. A daily edition called Morning Bulletin was published from 1857 to 1859. After 1861 there was a daily edition called the Chicago Commercial Ex- press. This paper was listed in some of the directories as Wells' Commercial Express. E
WESTERN RAILROAD GAZETTE, April, 1857-April, 1870+ : Stanley G. Fowler was editor and publisher, 1861-1865; A. N. Kellogg, 1866-1870. The title was changed April, 1870, to WHF
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RAILROAD GAZETTE, +April, 1870-1882+: After the fire of October, 1871, the paper was published simultaneously in Chi- cago and New York. A. N. Kellogg was proprietor, 1872; A. N. Kellogg and Company were proprietors, 1873. In 1872 S. Wright Dunning and M. N. Forney were editors; S. Boardman was publisher. S. Wright Dunning and M. N. Forney were editors and publishers, 1873-1883. The paper was moved to New York in 1882. June, 1908, it was united with Railway Age as Railroad Age Gazette, and is still so published. HWUJC ZEITGEIST, 1857-1858: German. Edited by Ernest Georders and published by Charles Hess.
CLOUD AND THE Bow, July 7, 1858 -- (?) : A semi-monthly relig- ious publication, edited by Rev. W. H. Hadley. "Devoted to the benefit of the friendless, the tempted, and the erring." EH
EMERY'S JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, January I-October 7, 1858+ : Edited by Henry D. Emery and Charles D. Bragdon. With vol. 2, no. 15 (Prairie Farmer, vol. 18, no. 41), October 7, 1858, Mr. Emery, who had bought the Prairie Farmer, October I, continued the paper as Emery's Journal of Agriculture and Prairie Farmer, October 7, 1858-January, 1859. January 1, 1859, he shortened the title to the original Prairie Farmer, and continued the publication. (See p. 54.) WH
HERALD, May, 1858-September, 1860+: Established by Isaac Cook and Charles N. Pine as a Buchanan administration organ to antagonize the Times, which supported Douglas. In 1859 it was sold to Cyrus H. McCormick. The Times was bought by McCormick in September, 1860, and the first number of the Daily Times and Herald was issued September 8. This paper was maintained through the campaign of 1860 as an ex- treme exponent of State Rights Democracy. Ex-Governor E. W. McComas was editor first of the Herald, later of the Times and Herald. An advertisement of the Herald before the con- solidation announces that the paper will continue "an organ of Democratic thought and an exponent of constitutional principles. It will advocate the equal rights of the people and the fraternal union of the States. . Its motto is 'Principles, not Men.' As a commercial, mechanical, literary and moral newspaper, it will be inferior to none in the West. Nothing will be allowed in its columns that will cause a blush to the most rigidly pure." (See Times.) A
NORTHWESTERN PRAIRIE FARMER, October 7, 1858 to date (1860) : Established by James C. Medill, editor, and William S. Hon- nold, publisher, who apparently did not wish to be included among those who sold their good will to H. D. Emery with the
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Prairie Farmer. The Northwestern Prairie Farmer used the same slogan that the Prairie Farmer had used: "Farmers, write for your paper." Charles Betts appeared as an editor some time after the establishment of the paper, which is found in the directory for 1859 and 1860. E
NORTHWESTERN QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, October, 1858: Edited by James Grant Wilson and published by Rufus Blanchard. A serious magazine, "the most ambitious of the kind ever attempted in Chicago, and quite pretentious for so early a date . " In telling of the aims of the magazine the editors said that "the broad fields of literature" were to be traversed "and the progress of fine arts to be traced." The financial embarrassment of Mr. Blan- chard in another publication enterprise prevented the appearance of a second number of the Quarterly, even though the material for it was in the proof. H
DET RÄTTA HEMLANDET, +1858-1873+: Established in Gales- burg in 1856 as a monthly devotional paper, it was removed to Chicago in 1858. It editors to 1873 were the same as for Hem- landet. Merged in
HEMLANDET, DET GAMLA OCH DET NYE, +January 7, 1858 to date: A Swedish Lutheran paper, published at Galesburg from January 3, 1855, to 1858, when it was moved to Chicago. It was edited by Rev. T. N. Hasselquist, 1855-1858; Dr. Eric Norelius, assisted by Jonas Engberg, 1859; Norelius was suc- ceeded by Erland Carlsson, assisted by Engberg. Carlsson turned the work over to Engberg, 1863-1864; Dr. A. R. Cervin, 1864-1868; J. G. Princell, January-July, 1869; P. A. Sundelius, 1869; Johan Alfred Enander, 1869-1872; Enander and G. A. Bohman, 1872-1889. The firm was dissolved in 1889, and was succeeded by the Hemlandet Publishing Company, 1890. In 1891 Hemlandet was sold to A. E. Johnson with J. N. Söderholm as partner, editor-in-chief, and manager, 1891-1896; in 1896 Johnson bought out Söderholm, organized the Hemlandet Com- pany with himself as president, and Johan Alfred Enander again became editor. In 1869 the character of the paper was changed from a mainly religious to a general newspaper. Republican and still devoted to the interests of the Lutheran church.
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