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chased the property and continued the publication of the pa- per for nearly a year under the firm-name of Allen & Stick- ney. Owing to ill health, Mr. Stickney sold his interest in the Herald June 18, 1802, to John Barnard, and for the next twelve months the paper was under the control of Messrs. Allen & Barnard. On the fourth day of March, 1803, the name of the paper was changed to The Newburyport Herald, and the supplementary title, "The Country Gazette," was dropped. On the inside page at the head of the editorial col- umn the following motto was printed, semi-weekly, for many years.
He comes, the HERALD of a noisy world News from all nations lumbering at his back.
In July, 1803, the firm of Allen & Barnard was dissolved, and the senior partner, Ephraim W. Allen, continued to pub- lish the paper until 1815, making no change in the title on the first page, although the colophon on the fourth page gave the name as printed in 1797: "The Newburyport Herald and the Country Gazette." From April to October, 1815, Henry Small was publisher of the paper and the title was changed to " The Newburyport Herald and the Commercial Gazette." B. W. Folsom was publisher from March, 1816, to February, 1817. For nearly a year, William Hastings had charge of the paper, " for the proprietors." In February, 1818, Ephraim W. Allen was again sole owner and publisher. He retained control of the paper until 1832. During his absence from Newburyport, in 1823, Caleb Cushing had charge of the edi- torial columns for several months.
August 3, 1832, the first number of the Daily Herald was issued and in the month of October following William S. Allen purchased a controlling interest in the Daily Herald and in the Semi-Weekly Herald, which were then published " for the proprietors by Joseph B. Morss." On the second day of June, 1834, both these papers were sold to Joseph B. Morss and William H. Brewster,' who published them under the
1 Newburyport (Semi-Weekly) Herald, June 3, 1834. Ephraim W. Allen died March 9, 1846.
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firm-name of Morss and Brewster until January, 1854, when William H. Huse was admitted to membership in the firm, and the name changed to Morss, Brewster & Huse.
In 1856, Joseph B. Morss and William H. Brewster sold all their right, title and interest in the property to William H. Huse, who in company with John Q. A. Stone, Benjamin F. Carter, George J. L. Colby and others,' under the firm-name of William H. Huse & Co., owned and published the Herald until the Newburyport Herald Company was organized in 1889. The semi-weekly edition was discontinued June 6, 1879, and a weekly edition published, after that date, until April 1, 1902. The Daily Evening Herald was established December 25, 1880, and discontinued August 1, 1904.
The Newburyport Morning Herald is now published daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, by the Newburyport Herald Company, Nathaniel Appleton, president, and Benjamin A. Appleton, treasurer.
MERRIMACK
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GAZETTE, ADVERTIZER:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1803-
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The first number of the Merrimack Gazette and Essex Advertiser was printed by Caleb Cross at his office in Middle street, Newburyport, in February, 1803. The paper was published every Saturday morning for about two years. The above half-tone print is taken from a copy of this paper in the possession of Eugene Noyes of Amesbury. In 1805, Mr. Cross established and published a Democratic pa-
1 John Q. A. Stone was a member of the firm from 1856 to 1859.
Benjamin F. Carter ditto 1856 to 1862.
George J. L. Colby
ditto
1856 to 1867.
George Wood
ditto
1859 to 1866.
Caleb B. Huse
ditto
1859 to 1889.
John Coombs Arthur L. Huse
ditto
1862 to 1871.
ditto 1871 to 1889.
William H. Huse died March 28, 1888; and the Newburyport Herald Com- pany was organized the next year.
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per, called the Political Calender. He was appointed post- master in Newburyport in May or June, 1809.
July 6, 1803, John Barnard printed at his office on the north side of Market square, in Newburyport, the first number of the New England Repertory, a semi-weekly newspaper established by John Park. January 21, 1804, the paper was removed to Boston, and the name changed to The Boston Repertory.
William B. Allen published, June 8, 1805, the first number of the Merrimack Miscellany. It was a weekly paper devoted to the discussion of literary and political questions.
On or about December 13, 1805, W. & J. Gilman published at No. 4 Middle street, The Merrimack Magazine and Ladies Literary Cabinet, a weekly newspaper, containing selected ar- ticles from English and American periodicals. It was published for several years and then discontinued for lack of patronage. In 1825, Isaac Knapp, 3rd, proposed to revive the paper and publish it "for the sake of auld lang syne,"' but in May of that year he purchased the Northern Chronicler, and the plan was abandoned.
In May, 1824, the first number of the Northern Chronicler was published by Heman Ladd at No. 11 Cornhill, State street, Newburyport. In November of that year Robert Cross was associated with Mr. Ladd in the publication of the paper, which was issued once a week. In the month of May following, Isaac Knapp, 3rd, announced that he had purchased the Northern Chronicler, and intended to publish on Thurs- day, June 9, 1825, a new paper.1 Early in the month of June, 1825, the Essex Courant appeared, Isaac Knapp, 3rd, pub- lisher. March 17, 1826, Mr. Knapp sold all his right, title and interest in the Essex Courant to William Lloyd Garrison.
A week or ten days later the first number of The Free Press, bearing the motto " Our Country -- Our whole Country-and nothing but our Country," was published by William Lloyd Garrison at No. 24 State street, and subsequently at No. 2 South Row, Market square, Newburyport. Whittier's first poem was published in the Free Press June 8, 1826. In Sep-
1 Newburyport Herald, January 25, 1825.
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"OUR COUNTRY-OUR WHOLE COUNTRY-AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY."
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1826.
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THE FREE PRESS . Jeremy Beacha.s .- We have been | have been engaged in foreign trade, the | said to the Greeks, Establish a centrul govern- | wraith, the expenditure of the foreign lately favored at Paris for a few days Grecke are all soldiers-leaded with |ment, or you got no money. This was a mov. with the company of this profound puls !arms and thirsting for plunder .- In Greece ing argument, and the government was ac- curdingly estabhobed. Had he und Dy ren,
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(licis end philanthropist. He was merty ' the procent age will beat compare with upon the same grond, lansted won the or- ed with the attention which his ankle, that at deten theos. Hancur, "Notre Ginization and disciplining of the mihtaty
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character and profound knowledon do ' marketing for reseces, nell inceals, by no, force of the Greeks, many civile woord have -nemastad Dat Dos sats Chenbana and ! frit the plough.
tember, Mr. Garrison sold his interest in the paper to John H. Harris, who published it until the middle of December follow- ing when it was discontinued.I
Joseph H. Buckingham began the publication of the New- buryport Advertiser, a semi-weekly newspaper, in May, 1831. It was a vigorous supporter of the National Republicans in politics. After a brief existence it was discontinued.
January 1, 1833, a religious paper, in pamphlet form, was published by Hiram Tozer of Newburyport, at the suggestion, and under the direction, of the Essex Middle Association. It was named, by a committee chosen for that purpose, The Monthly Paper, and was printed on the first day of every month until January, 1834,2 when the first number of the Essex North Register was published with the consent and approval of the Essex North Association.3 The new paper was issued semi-monthly at first and afterwards once a week. It was discontinued December 29, 1837, but was re-established the following week, with a new name, under substantially the same management.
Friday, January 5, 1838, the first number of the Watch- tower, a newspaper devoted to the discussion of the moral, religious, educational and literary questions of the day, was published by Hiram Tozer. Roger G. Howard and David P. Page were the editors. In 1843, the Essex North Associa- tion became interested in the publication of the Watchtower,
1 Life of William Lloyd Garrison, by his children, vol. I., pp. 59-71. The heading of The Free Press reproduced in the above half-tone print is taken from a copy of the paper in the possession of Eugene Noyes of Amesbury, Mass.
2 Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Essex County, published by the Essex North Association in 1865, p. 41.
3 The name of the Essex Middle Association was changed to the Essex North Association January 8, 1834.
troops, was dried up ; the ardor of the contest wes gone, and rulo came home. to almost every door. Tradition can tell fus, of' Instances, where the farmer's'oxe el, were unyoked by the tar gatherer Sncb was the st fe
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and in 1844 Rev. Henry A. Woodman, pastor of the First church in West Newbury, was placed in charge of the paper as editor and publisher, which position he retained until 1849.1
Thursday evening, September 1, 1808, the first number of the Herald of Gospel Liberty was published at Portsmouth, N. H., in quarto form, for Rev. Elias Smith. In his address to the public the editor says : " A religious newspaper is al- most a new thing under the sun : I know not but this is the first ever published in the world." It advocated the doc- trines of the Freewill Baptist, or Christian denomination, and was of great assistance to the churches established in the mid- dle and eastern states. The paper was subsequently removed to Philadelphia, and published there for several years.2 In 1847, the name was changed to the Christian Herald, and under the control of the Eastern Printing association, it was published weekly at the corner of Middle and State streets, Newburyport, Rev. Daniel P. Pike, editor.3 In 1852, the name was again changed to the Herald of Gospel Liberty, and Benjamin F. Carter, as editor and publisher, had the man- agement of the paper until 1866. For two or three years after that date, Rev. Daniel P. Pike was editor and publisher. In 1869, the paper was removed to Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Pike continued as editor until 1871, when he commenced the pub- lication of a new paper, in Newburyport, which he called the Christian Herald. It was published until 1874, when it was discontinued.
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PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE, AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTE,
NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS --- JAT RDẠY, SEPTEMBER 24 1881
VOLUME I. --- NUMBER 95.
The ADve"ATE is published every WED. NESDAY and SATURDAY morning, m PHOENIX BUILDING State-il, (directly ever W. & J. Gilmen's 8.5rs, at $3,00 per year, pay . all Is advance. Twenty.hve per cont @lu be added to all subscripdess scigaining unpaid
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The People's Advocate was issued every Wednesday and Sat-
1 Contributions to Ecclesiastical History of Essex County, pp. 42 and 177.
2 New Jersey Archives, first series, vol. XII., p. cxxXIV; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. XXV., p. 382, note, and vol. XXXVII, p. 403. The Magazine of American History, vol. XVII., p. 430, has a photographic copy of the first page of the Herald of Gospel Liberty.
3 Newburyport Directory for 1849, p. 65.
B. P. HALE, Loftor and Publisher.
TERMS OF THE ADVOCATE
CHEAPER PERIODICAL IN AMERICA
Dortry.
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urday morning, from the printing office of B. E. Hale, in the Phoenix Building, State street, Newburyport. Mr. Hale was ed- itor and publisher. The first number of the paper was issued in June, 1833, " terms three dollars per year, payable in advance." It was well printed and carefully edited, but failed to secure strong financial support on account of its Democratic proclivi- ties. After a vigorous struggle for twelve months the paper was discontinued.1
William H. Huse, Joseph Bragdon and Alfred M. Berry, under the firm-name of Huse, Bragdon & Berry published the first number of the Newburyport Advertiser, a semi-weekly newspaper, at No. 13 Cornhill, State street, October 7, 1845. On the first day of January, 1847, the firm was dissolved, but Messrs. Huse & Bragdon continued to publish the paper until July 10, 1849, when they announced that it would be discon- tinued to reappear the following week as a daily evening journal.
William H. Huse, Charles Nason, Joseph H. Bragdon and James C. Peabody, under the firm-name of Nason, Bragdon & Co., published the first number of the Daily Evening Union July 23, 1849. In the month of November following, the firm-name was changed to Huse & Bragdon, and eighteen months later to Huse & Nason. June 1, 1852, William H. Huse was sole owner and publisher of the paper, which posi- tion he retained until January 1, 1854, when he became part owner of the Newburyport Herald, and the Daily Evening Union was discontinued.
January 21, 1854, the first number of the Saturday Even- ing Union and Weekly Family Visitor was published by Wil- liam H. Huse, Mrs. E. Vale Smith, editor. On the first day of February, 1855, the name of the paper was changed to The Saturday Evening Union and Essex North Record. It was discontinued in 1856.
Ben : Perley Poore was the editor and publisher of a paper
1 The half-tone print of the heading of The People's Advocate on the opposite page is reproduced from a copy of the paper in the possession of Eugene Noyes of Amesbury.
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printed in Newburyport every other Thursday, from July 20, 1854, until January, 1855, called The American Sentinel and Essex North Record.
In 1879, Michael C. Teel established and published the Semi-Weekly Germ, every Wednesday and Saturday morning at No. 4 Merrimack street, Newburyport. In 1882, the name of the paper was changed to the Newburyport Daily Germ, and it was printed every day in the week, Sundays excepted, by Michael C. and Edwin L. Teel under the firm- name of M. C. Teel & Son. On the twenty-sixth day of Jan- uary, 1887, it was sold to Mr. Fred E. Smith.
February 1, 1887, the first number of the Newburyport Daily News was published by Mr. Fred E. Smith. On the twenty-seventh day of May following, Mr. James H. Hig- gins became financially interested in the paper, and united with Mr. Smith in forming the News Publishing Company, which has owned and controlled the Daily News since that date.
In March, 1890, a weekly newspaper, called the Saturday Night, George J. L. Colby, editor, was published by the Sat- urday Night Company, Albert F. Hunt, manager. In 1892, the name of the paper was changed to the Newburyport Item. Since that date it has been published every Saturday morning by the Item Publishing Company, Albert F. Hunt, manager.
In addition to the papers described in the above list, the following-named weekly or monthly journals were published in Newburyport for a few months and then removed to other towns or discontinued for lack of patronage.
The Newburyport Gazette, Benjamin Edes, publisher, 1806.
The Statesman, Joseph Gleason, publisher, 1809.
The Independent Whig, Nathaniel H. Wright, publisher, 1810.
The Churchman's Repository for the Eastern Diocese was published in Newburyport by Henry R. Stickney in July, 1820. It was a monthly publication, edited by Rev. James Morss of Newburyport, Rev. Asa Eaton of Boston, Rev. Charles Bur- roughs of Portsmouth and Rev. Thomas Carlyle of Salem. It was removed to Boston in the month of December following.
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In January, 1821, Henry R. Stickney published the first number of the Gospel Advocate, a theological magazine. It was printed once a month in the Phoenix Building at first, and afterwards in the Herald office, Newburyport, but in May of that year it was removed to Boston.1
In 1842, Hiram Tozer published the Merrimack Journal twice a week for ten or twelve months,2 but the circulation was limited and no copies of the paper have been preserved.
In 1844, a semi-weekly newspaper called the Newburyport Courier was established by Greenleaf Clark and published every Wednesday and Saturday morning by Clark & Whitten. In 1846, it was published as a daily paper by Whitten & Hale.
The Essex County Constellation was published by John S. Foster, in 1849, and the Mirror and Casket, a literary paper, by Joseph Hunt, in 1848.
The Newburyport Star was published weekly from January 14 to April 29, 1865, by R. D. & Thomas S. Pratt, under the firm-name of Pratt Brothers, at the printing office on the cor- ner of State and Middle streets.
The Merrimac Valley Visitor, published every Saturday morning, by George J. L. Colby in 1872, and afterwards by Colby, Coombs & Co., was discontinued in January, 1887.
The Advocate, a weekly newspaper, was published for six or eight months in 1875 by Albert F. Hunt.
The Sun, a Democratic paper, was published daily during the presidential campaign of 1876 by Eliphalet Griffin and others.
The Ocean Wave, edited by Lothrop Withington, was pub- lished every evening, Sundays excepted, from October, 1878, until March, 1879.
The Daily Standard was published every morning from Jan- uary, 1891, until June, 1892, Sundays excepted, by Arthur Withington, George O. Atkinson, Edward A. Huse, Walter S. Pearson and J. Hermann Carver, printers and publishers, under the corporate name of the Standard Newspaper Company.
1 Newburyport Herald, June 2, 1821.
2 Newburyport Herald, April 12, 1842.
CHAPTER XIV.
LIBRARIES.
THE first circulating library in America was established in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin in 1732. A fund was raised for the purchase of books, and subscribers, who contrib- uted two pounds for that purpose and paid ten shillings an- nually thereafter, were allowed to take a certain number of books from the library every week.
In 1747, a similar organization, now known as the Redwood Library Association, was formed by a few individuals in New- port, R. I. At the close of the Revolutionary war, Salem, Boston, Leominister and a few other towns in Massachusetts had small libraries from which books could be taken by the payment of a fixed annual fee.
George J. Osborne, a bookseller, established a circulating library in Newburyport previous to 1794.1 Subsequently, Bishop Norton, Abraham Wheelwright, Robert Long, Thomas W. Hooper, Charles Coffin, Jr., Philip Coombs and Richard Pike announced that they had prepared a plan for organizing and maintaining a library in the centre of the town.2 In December, 1794, they published the following notice :-
The Directors of the Newburyport Library acquaint the subscribers that they have finished the appraisement of Books and will be ready to purchase them which are wanting to complete the Catalogue, as soon as a full collection of the subscriptions shall be obtained.
Those, therefore, whose subscriptions are yet unpaid, and those who have present Books are requested to call on Mr. Osborne immediately and procure his receipt.3
On the nineteenth day of December, the following advertise- ment appeared in the Impartial Herald :-
1 Morning Star, April 22, May 6, and June 3, 1794.
2 Morning Star, October 29, 1794.
3 Impartial Herald, December 12, 1794.
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Any person wishing to become a Proprietor in the Newburyport Li- brary may do it by application to Mr. Osborne, Librarian, with whom are lodged the Rules of the Library.
It is requested that all subscriptions may be effected as soon as possi - ble as the Books will speedily be purchased.
In 1796, Bulkeley Emerson, Jr., was treasurer and librarian of the Newburyport Library association.1
In 1797, Edmund M. Blunt had a circulating library in his bookstore on State street, a few doors below Wolfe tavern, then standing on the corner of Threadneedle alley.2 The li- brary contained fifteen hundred volumes in 1798, eighteen hundred volumes two years later, and three thousand in 1802.3 Books were delivered to subscribers at any hour, from five o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock at night. Ebenezer Stedman, a bookseller in Market square, purchased the library in 1803, and added a large number of theological, historical and biographical works.4 In 1807, he sold all his right, title and in- terest in the library to William Sawyer and Edward Little, who advertised, under the firm-name of William Sawyer & Co., to loan books to persons agreeing to pay a small annual subscription fee. In 1809, Mr. Little organized a new business firm, and, under the name of Edward Little & Co., had charge of the library until it was discontinued several years later.5
" The First Social Library Society " was probably formed in 1797. Joseph Somerby was clerk in 1798.6 Benjamin Balch, Abraham Wheelwright, Charles Jackson, John Fitz and Daniel Balch, five of the proprietors, united in a call for a meeting to be held June 29, 1801, for the election of officers and the adoption of several new by-laws.7 Books of a literary and historical character were purchased for the use of members
1 Impartial Herald, March 31, 1796.
2 Impartial Herald, December 5, 1797.
3 Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette, February 13, 1798, November 21, 1800, and May, 1802.
4 Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette, September 30, 1803.
3 Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette, November 3, 1809.
6 Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette, January 4, 1799.
7 Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette, June 19, 1801.
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and the society continued in active operation until 1836 and perhaps later.1
"The Essex Circulating Library," established in 1803 by Angier March, printer and bookseller,2 and " The Merrimack Circulating Library," established in 1807 by Timothy Webb and Thomas Kettell, under the firm-name of Webb & Ket- tell, were also liberally patronized for many years.3
In 1807, Theophilus Parsons and John Lowell, former citi- zens of Newburyport, were named in the act incorporating the Boston Athenaeum. A similar association was formed in New- buryport in 1809. " It was organized for the laudable purpose of promoting learning and diffusing useful knowledge by estab- lishing a repository for valuable and rare productions in the vari- ous arts, sciences, and polite literature and for collecting the . most important tracts, pamphlets, and documents, illustrative of the natural and civil history of our country, of the genius, policy and laws of the general and state governments and of the manners, customs, and interests of the American people."
February 24, 1810, John Andrews, Edward Little, William Woart, William Bartlet, James Morse, Jeremiah Nelson, Dan- iel A. White, Thomas Cary, Samuel L. Knapp, Joseph Dana, Daniel Stephen Howard and Nathaniel Bradstreet, trustees of the association, " with such other person or persons as shall from time to time be admitted members of the said association," were incorporated by the name of " The Proprietors of the Newburyport Athenæum."3
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