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"WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
"Auburn, Oct. 15, 1838." -(Young).
The personal participation of William H Seward in the active affairs of the Chautauqua Land Office was re- duced to indirect supervision after his inauguration as governor of New York State. By his agreement with the American Trust Company he was to retain the agency, either in person or by his appointment, for a term of three years from July 11, 1838. At this time not many thousands of acres of land remained unsold or uncon- tracted for, and the immediate pressure of politics made it imperative that Mr. Seward should engage an active agent to represent him at the Land Office. In May, 1841, lic requested Mr. George W. Patterson to become the agent for the proprietors, and the latter served in that capacity for about fifteen years when he bought the remaining unsold lands.
The affairs of the Chautauqua Land Company dimin- ished rapidly, and at time of Mr. Patterson's death, in 1879, practically all the lands embraced within the original limits of the Holland Purchase in Chautauqua county were sold or contracted for. It might be said that with the death of Mr. Patterson the local history of the Hol- land Company came to an end.
THE PRESS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. By Frederick P. Hall and Edward L. Allen.
The first newspaper established in Chautauqua county was the "Chautauqua Gazette," in January, 1817. It was printed in Fredonia by James Percival. The little ham- let, then called Canadaway, became more ambitious with the advent of the newspaper man, and a meeting was called to select a new name. Various names were sug- gested, but finally, Fredonia was chosen. Jacob Hough- ton, the first lawyer, is said to have cast the first ballot for that name. Fredonia had been urged at one time as a good title for the whole United States, and Judge Houghton evidently thought it too pleasing a name to be lost entirely. So the first number of the "Chautauqua Gazette" was dated at Fredonia. It was twelve years afterward (1829) before the village was incorporated and legally christened.
Mr. Percival had been induced to establish his paper in Fredonia by advance subscriptions of from ten to thirty dollars each by leading citizens, and that money all went into material. With his best subscribers all paid years in advance and no money for current ex- penses, Mr. Pervical's plight may be readily perceived. There was only one solution of that difficulty. The ad- vance subscriptions were called donations, and everybody was called upon for an annual payment, and even then Mr. Percival survived only one year as publisher. He sold out to Carpenter & Hull, and afterwards Mr. James
Hull became sole proprietor and continued the publica- tion successfully about seven years.
Henry C. Frisbee was an apprentice boy under James Hull, and before he was twenty-one years of age resolved to have a paper of his own. He got in touch with some castern politicians and found he could rent the material of an abandoned paper in Buffalo, owned by Smith Salis- bury. The result was that Mr. Frisbce drove to Buffalo with a team and wagon, and a day or two afterward drove into Fredonia a proud young man, for loaded on his wagon were the press, type and other materials with which he established the "Fredonia Censor" in April, 1821. The "Chautauqua Eagle" had meanwhile been established in 1818 by Robert J. Curtis, at Mayville, but it and the "Gazette" long ago disappeared, so the "Cen- sor" is now the oldest surviving paper in the county. The "Chautauqua Eagle" at one time printed a paper for the city of Erie, called the "Erie Reflector," and sent the edition there by Willard W. Brigham on horseback.
The "Jamestown Journal" is the next oldest surviving paper. It was established in 1826 by Adolphus Fletcher, and has now the most costly plant in the county. The daily edition is now in its fifty-third year. Westfield, Dunkirk and Forestville also had papers that were short- lived. The "Dunkirk Beacon," which might be called the ancestor of the "Dunkirk Journal" and the "Daily Ob-
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server," was published by E. R. Thompson, a very intel- ligent and courtly gentleman, grandfather of Henry K. and Gerald B. Williams of the "Dunkirk Evening Observer."
The "Western Democrat and Literary Inquirer" was published for a time by leading Democrats in Fredonia, including Benjamin Randall, E. A. Lester, and others. It was established in 1835, and when Van Buren on Lake Erie was a village with stores, a brick hotel, a warehouse and dock, the plant was taken there to print the "Van Buren Times."
The "Mayville Sentinel," founded in 1833 as a Demo- cratic paper, continued until about 1890. John F. Phelps was long connected with it, and Beman Brockway pub- lished the "Sentinel" for eleven years. He, his cousin Willard Mckinstry and L. L. Pratt, were apprentice boys together in the office of the "Courier," in Northampton, Mass. All later came to Chautauqua county.
The "Frontier Express," established in Fredonia in 1846 by Cutler, Cottle & Perham, became afterward the "Fredonia Express," then the "Chautauqua Union," and finally in 1851 the "Fredonia Advertiser," which was published in connection with the "Dunkirk Daily Her- ald." It was called the "Advertiser and Union" after it was consolidated with the "Dunkirk Union" about 1870. Charles E. Benton did much to build up the "Advertiser and Union," and worked very hard at it until his death, about 1875.
The "Westfield Republican" is the next oldest paper now published. It was established by Martin C. Rice, April 25, 1855. He continued as editor and proprietor till 1873, then F. A. Hall had it ten years and Alfred E. Rose six years. It has been under the control of the pres- ent editor and proprietor, H. W. Thompson, since 1889.
The first paper established in Westfield was the "Western Star," Harvey Newcomb, proprietor. Its be- ginning was prior to 1831, for after changing to the "Chautauqua Phoenix," it became the "Chautauqua Eagle," and was published under that title by George W. Newcomb from 1831 to 1838. C. J. J. and T. Ingersoll published the "Westfield Messenger" from 1848 to 1851, and there were some other shortlived sheets.
Two marked characters in newspaper work were Col- man E. Bishop and Davis H. Waite. Mr. Bishop was a very vigorous writer, and edited the "Jamestown Eve- ning Journal" when it was established in 1870, the first daily in the county. He was succeeded by Mr. Waite, who edited it during the Grant campaign of 1872. Mr. Waite was a witty, pungent writer, and a genial com- panion, put in charge of the paper by Governor Fenton and his friends, who were quite disappointed when Waite decided to support General Grant, On being reproached for flouting his backers, Waite announced that it was true they had endorsed his notes, and he appreciated it, and was willing to reciprocate. "Come around any time," he announced to the complainants, "and 1 will endorse your notes to the same amount." Afterwards Mr. Waite published a paper at Aspen, Colorado, and during the Populist excitement he was elected governor of Colorado. It was during that period that he attended a free silver convention in Chicago, and declared that the people of Colorado, before they would submit to being deprived of the silver dollar of their fathers, would ride through blood up to their horses' bridles. This gave him the pop- ular sobriquet of "Bloody Bridles Waite."
Hon. Benjamin S. Dean, afterwards delegate in the Constitutional Convention of 1894, edited the "James- town Morning News" for a period, and made it a power in the county, but it was financially unprofitable, and ex- pired after Mr. Dean Icit it.
In all the progress of the county, the business of pub-
lishing newspapers has kept pace. The old-time hand press could be worked to a speed of about two hundred an hour. Now every paper in the county has some kind of a cylinder press, and in Jamestown and Dunkirk are found the best, which easily print ten thousand copies per hour and deliver the papers folded. Linotype ma- chines in the large offices enable editions to be quickly set up, the old-time hand compositor being at a decided dis- advantage. Yet there was a charm about the old time printing office with its democratic ways and paternal management, its ambitions and hopes and joys, which the modern establishment filled with clanging machinery con- spicuously lacks.
OLD-TIME PRINTERS AND PAPERS .- A well known char- acter connected with Chautauqua county newspaper life was Albert H. Hilton, who learned the printing business in the office of the "Fredonia Advertiser." Most of his afterlife was spent with that paper either as partner or employe, and there he ended his life, October 5, 1899, falling asleep in his large rocking chair, on the arm of which was found the last local item he ever wrote.
At Jamestown in 1828, Morgan Bates began the publi- cation of the "Chautauqua Republican." It was pub- lished in Jamestown for five years and then removed to Mayville, the name being changed to the "Republican Banner."
In 1829 Lewis Todd started at Jamestown a Univer- salist paper, "The Genius of Liberty," which had an existence of about two years.
In 1847 Harvey H. Smith established an anti-slavery paper, "The Liberty Star." This was subsequently pur- chased by Adolphus Fletcher, who changed the name to the "Northern Citizen." In 1855 J. W. Fletcher became proprietor, naming it the "Chautauqua Democrat." In 1860 A. B. Fletcher became one of its proprietors, and eventually its sole owner. In 1872 a daily was begun and continued until 1879, when the daily was sold to the "Journal," the weekly being continued until 1892, when that was merged with the "Journal."
In 1852 Dr. Asaph Rhodes began the publication of the "Jamestown Herald," which a year later he sold to J. B. Nessle, who removed the paper to Ellington.
At Jamestown in 1858, J. Leslie Randolph began the issue of a paper in the interests of the "Know Nothing" or American question in politics-"The Constitution ;" and it was short lived.
A Democratic paper, the "Chautauqua County Press," was established in 1867 at Jamestown by James T. Henry, which survived but a few years. In October, 1879, the "Jamestown Standard" was started by P. K. Shankland and E. A. Brooks. During the campaign of 1882 a daily was also published. The "Weekly Standard" was merged with the "Jamestown Sun" in 1886.
In 1879, at Jamestown, Simeon C. Davis published a Greenback paper, the "People's Press;" after a few months a stock company was formed and issued the paper under the name of the "National Record." This had an existence of about a year.
In 1880 the publication of a Sunday paper, "The Leader," was begun at Jamestown by John A. MeCann. It was purchased by J. H. Monroe and continued for a brief time.
At Jamestown "The Daily Messenger" was begun in 1881 by Blodget & Dean, who conducted it three months, then sold to Lyman J. Woodward, and after an existence of about a year it was known no more.
"The Morning Dispatch," a daily, was put forth in 1884 at Jamestown, by J. L. White, with A. F. Jenks as editor. It was of short duration.
In April, 1875, the "Weekly Grange" was started by D. H. Waite. In 1880 C. E. Bishop began the publica-
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tion of "The Countryside." Both were agricultural papers of short life.
The "Sunday Sun" was established by L. F. Camp and Guy H. Fuller, June 29. 1881, at Jamestown. In May, 1886, they purchased of P. K. Shankland the "Jamestown Standard," and issued a weekly and Sunday paper. In 1891 Mr. Fuller purchased the interest of Mr. Camp and in 1894 sold out to George C. VanDusen, under whose administration the papers were discontinued.
"The Morning News," a daily, was started at James- town in October, 1885, by W. S. Crosby, with Benjamin S. Dean, as editor. Mr. Dean subsequently became sole proprietor. In 1888 George S. Bright purchased an inter- est. In 1890 the paper became the property of the News Publishing Co., and was discontinued in 1807.
In 1887 Lyman J. Woodward hegan the publication of a labor reform paper called "Every Saturday." It was purchased by P. K. Shankland in 1890 and published as a Democratic paper, being known as the "Saturday Times."
In September. 1891, a semi-weekly independent paper called "The All" was established by M. Geo. Martyn at Jamestown. In December the same year it was made a daily. December 12, 1803, it passed into the hands of Bowen Brothers. The "Saturday Times" was also pur- chased of P. K. Shankland, and published as a weekly in connection with their daily. On June 27, 1808, the plant was purchased by George G. Brownell. On Febru- ary 14, 1890, he changed the name of "The All" to the "Daily Times" and began the publication of a tri-weekly. He continued until July 19, 1900, when the business was suspended.
The "Sunday Telegram" was established in 1804 by Vaughn Brothers and George B. Smith. Discontinued in fall of 1895.
The "Jainestown Herald," a weekly Democratic paper, was established in 1898, and published by E. E. Sprague. The "Union Advocate," devoted to the interest of organ- ized labor, established in 1900, was issued from the same office.
In October, 1898, at Jamestown, the "Country World," an agricultural paper-then the only paper of its kind in Western New York, was established by A B. Fletcher. It has been discontinued.
The "Saturday Review," a literary paper, was begun at Jamestown in November, 1899, by Howard M. Goldth- wait, which had but a brief existence.
"The Furniture Index," a trade monthly, was started at Jamestown in March, 1900, by P. K. Shankland and G. H. Fuller. This is now published by a stock com- pany of which H. W. Patterson is manager.
"The Tribune," an eight-page daily, was begun at Jamestown, July 23, 1900, by W. W. Clark, editor and proprietor. It had but a brief existence.
The first Swedish newspaper was the "Folkets Rost" (the People's Voice) established in 1874. In 1884 the name was changed to "Vart Nya Hem" (Our New Home). In 1891 the paper was sold to "Vart Land" (Our Land), A. J. Lanness, editor.
In 1879, in Jamestown, Frank I. Blodget issued the "Sunday Herald," and after a brief existence it sus- pended. Mr. Blodget removed to Olympia, Washington, in 1884, where he has been successful in business and politics, having held the position of State Treasurer at one time.
At Cherry Creek, in 1879, Everand A. Hayes, a law- yer. edited "The Herald and News," the type-setting and presswork being done at Gowanda. This paper continued for about a year. In July, 1882, John H. Gardiner founded the "Cherry Creek Monitor," which he sold in December of that year to M. J. Ackley, who soon took as partner Harry D. Caskey. This copartnership con-
tinted seven months, when Mr. Ackley purchased his partner's interest. In November, 1884, Charles J. Shults and Frank B. Whipple purchased the plant from him, at which time the "Pine Valley News" was removed to Cherry Creek and both papers consolidated under the name of the "Cherry Creek News." Mr. Whipple re- mained a member of the firm until the following May. Charles J. Shults conducted the paper successfully until October, 1807, when he sold to Fred J. Huntley, who practically discontinued it after a trial of four months. Mr. Shults then revived it, and sold again in October, 1808, to Will T. Reade and Clarence S. Smith. Later, H. C. Mills became the owner and on October 1, 1010, he sold out to F. J. Brettle, who has edited and published "The News" continuously, 1910-1920.
NEWSPAPERS OF TO-DAY (1020) .- The "Jamestown Evening Journal," daily except Sunday ; The Journal Printing Company ; Frederick P. Hall, president and general manager: James A. Clary, vice-president and managing editor ; Henri M. Hall, treasurer and business manager : Levant M. Hall, secretary.
The "Jamestown Morning Post," daily except Sunday ; The Post Publishing Company; Ralph C. Sheldon, pres- ident ; Edward L. Allen, secretary and managing editor : Robert K. Beach, treasurer and business manager.
The "Jamestown Evening News," daily except Sunday ; the Jamestown Evening News Company, Incorporated; Clarence J. Sprague, president ; Robert C. Spohn, vice- president ; Elmer E. Sprague, secretary-treasurer.
The "Dunkirk Evening Observer," daily except Sun- day; the Dunkirk Printing Company; Henry K. Wil- liams, president, treasurer and general manager ; Ger- ald B. Williams, editor.
The "Jamestown Journal" (tri-weekly), published by The Journal Printing Company.
"The Grape Belt aud Chautauqua Farmer" (semi- weekly), owned and published by the Dunkirk Printing Company.
"The Furniture Index" (monthly), published by the Furniture Trade Publishing Company.
The following are weekly publications :
"The Chautauqua Democrat," Jamestown Evening News Company.
"The Sinclairville Commercial," Jamestown Evening News Company.
"The Union Advocate," Jamestown Evening News Company.
"Vart Land," the Vart Land Company, Jamestown; F. C. Curtis, president : S. A. Carlson, secretary.
"Skandia," the Liberty Printing Company, Jamestown ; C. E. Lindstone, editor.
"Cherry Creek News," Cherry Creek; F. J. Brettle. editor and publisher.
"Chautauqua News," Sherman; the Dorman Printing Company ( M. L. and L. B. Dorman ).
"Brocton Mirror," A. A. Cobb, publisher.
"Fredonia Censor," Frederick C. Bickers, owner and publisher.
"Forestville Free Press," H. B. Thompson, editor and publisher.
"Ripley Review," Murray D. Conrath, editor and pro- prietor.
"Silver Creek News," C. J. Bellinger, publisher.
"Silver Creek Gazette," Charles C. Stacy, editor and publisher.
"Mayville Sentinel," the Mayville Printing Co .; C. C. Taylor, president ; A. W. Dyer, vice-president and sec- retary.
"Westfield Republican," Herbert W. Thompson, editor and publisher.
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SOME JOURNALISTS OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY.
HENRY C. FRISBEE, founder of the "Fredonia Censor," and its publisher for fifteen years, was born in Essex county, New York, in March, 1801, died in Fredonia, New York, November 9, 1873. He learned the printer's trade on the "Chautauqua Gazette," under James Hull, "The Gazette" the first newspaper printed in the county. In 1817 he came to Fredonia, worked for Mr. Hull and attended school until 1820, when he heard of an ahan- doned plant in Buffalo and rented it, with privilege of buying at $300 of Smith H. Salisbury. Mr. Frisbee drove to Buffalo and brought back the press and type and cases he had leased, in a two-horse wagon. He used to say that Commodore Vanderbilt never made a trip in private car with more pride than he felt that day he drove into Fredonia with his printing materials, in March, 1821. He issued the first copy of what he called the "New York Censor" in April, 1821, with only fifty subscribers and not a paying advertisement. He filled an old bedtick with straw, bought a second hand coverlid, and slept in the office, stuffing his bed into a closet in the daytime, thus rendering his living expenses to one dollar per week. By the end of the year he had his paper on a paying basis, and made a success of it for seventeen years, when he sold at a good price and went into the book and station- ery trade. He conducted his book store some thirty years and retired with a comfortable property. With scarcely any advantages of early education, and only twenty years old when he established the "Censor," he soon became known through the State as a strong thinker and pungent writer. In 1844 he was elected member of Assembly, having been nominated by the Whig party without his knowledge. His associates from this county in the As- sembly in 1845 were Samuel A. Brown of Jamestown and Jeremiah Mann of Ripley. He was secretary of the Lake Shore Railroad Company when it was organized in Fre- donia about 1850, and one of the first directors of the Fredonia National Bank. He joined the Presbyterian church during a revival in 1834, and remained an hon- ored member to the end.
WILLARD MCKINSTRY was born in Chicopee, Mass., May 9, 1815. His great-great-grandfather, Roger Mc- Kinstry, emigrated from Scotland to Ireland about 1669. Mr. Mckinstry's great-grandfather, John Mckinstry, was born in Ireland in 1677, graduated from Edinburgh University in 1712, emigrated to America in 1718, be- coming a Congregational clergyman first at Sutton, Mass., then at Ellington, Conn. His grandfather, John Mckinstry, was born at Sutton in 1723, graduated from Yale in 1746, was the first pastor of the Second Congre- gatioral parish of Springfield from 1752 and labored with that church until his death in 1813. Perseus Mckinstry, son of John, of Springfield, was born at Chicopee in 1772, married Grace Williams in 1803; was a tanner at Plainfield, then a farmer at Chicopce and died in 1829.
Willard Mckinstry's character was formed in that of industry, frugality, integrity, patriotism and piety, for which New England was then noted. There was much work, little play, some schooling, and a small farm fur- nished a frugal support for the large family until he was fourteen, when his father died. In 1832 he became an apprentice in the office of the "Northampton (Mass.) Courier." He journeyed on foot to Northampton, four- teen miles, carrying his effects in a handkerchief; his wages were $30 the first year, $35 the second, $40 the third and $50 the fourth. That knowledge of public affairs and of the English language which made him such a clear and vigorous writer, was chiefly acquired by careful study and extensive reading during his appren- ticeship and service as a journeyman printer in New York, Hartford, Springfield and Mayville. In Spring-
field he worked three years for G. & C. Merriam, pub- lishers of "Webster's Dictionary," and in Mayville he worked on the "Sentinel" for his cousin, Beman Brock- way, with whom he was a fellow apprentice at North- ampton. In the spring of 1842 Mr. Mckinstry purchased the "Fredonia Censor," which he edited until his death in Fredonia, January 26, 1899, at which time he enjoyed the distinction of being the oldest editor in the State. He married in 1842, Maria A. Durlin, of Fredonia, a per- son well adapted for the helpmate of a pioneer printer, possessing energy of character, fine literary tastes, whose judgment of literary merit was almost unerring. She died in April, 1882. Of their four children, three lived to maturity : Louis, the eldest, later publisher of the "Fredonia Censor :" Willard D., of the "Watertown Times ;" and Anna, wife of Prof. M. T. Dana. In 1887 Mr. Mckinstry married Mrs. Mary A. Baker of Ackley, Iowa, who died in less than a year.
Mr. Mckinstry, when fourteen, united with the same Congregational church to which his father had preached long before he was born, and was a member of the Northampton church from 1832 until 1847, when he united with the Presbyterian church in Fredonia. He was a Whig, casting his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, and a steadfast Republican from the organization of that party. He was postmaster at Fredonia for eight years, first appointed by President Lincoln in 1863. He was "anti-slavery" from youth, and strongly "Union." In 1865 he was for a time with the army near Petersburg, in the service of the Christian Commission, and was a strong friend of the soldiers, having advocated every measure for their relief or benefit. He was one of the original trustees of Forest Hill Cemetery, of which asso- ciation he was president many years; an original stock- holder in the Dunkirk and Fredonia Railway Company, of which he was president fourteen years; one of the first movers to secure the location of the State Normal School in Fredonia, and a member of its first local board of managers. He was always opposed to formalism, and never departed from those characteristics of simplicity and sincerity which he acquired in his early Puritan home. He prepared many public addresses and memorials of marked vigor and literary merit.
LOUIS MCKINSTRY was born in Fredonia, December 9, 1844, died there March 5, 1919. He was variously cin- ployed until July 1, 18' 7, when he became a partner with his father, Willard Mckinstry, and together they pub- lished "The Censor" until the death of the senior partner, January 26, 1899, after publishing the paper for fifty- seven years. Louis Mckinstry continued the publication of "The Censor" until January 1, 1919, when he sold to Frederick C. Bickers, the present owner (1920). He was connected with "The Censor" as partner and owner from July 1, 1867, to January 1, 1919.
Mr. Mckinstry has held various offices, and was an original member of the local board of managers of the State Normal School at Fredonia, appointed in 1874, and secretary and treasurer from that date until he resigned in December, 1901. In 1894, he was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of the State, and introduced three amendments-forbidding license of the liquor traffic, but providing for its taxation; making county treasurers ineligible for reelection, same as sheriffs ; providing that women residents may vote at village elec- tions. None became part of the revised constitution, but the principle of the first was afterwards adopted in the enactment of the liquor tax law framed by Senator John Raines. For fifty years Mr. Mckinstry was in the cleri- cal service of the county (not continuous), and until his death was assistant clerk to the board of supervisors. He married T. Fredonia Houghton, daughter of Judge L.
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