History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume I, Part 56

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1202

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The People's Press was established in 1833 by James B. Gardiner. It sup- ported William Henry Harrison for President and Robert Lucas, Democrat, for Governor. It lived only six months.

The Ohio Confederate was established in 1836 by John G. Miller, who con- dneted it for a while as a Democratic and State's Rights paper, but in time wheeled it into line in support of William Henry Harrison for President. In 1841, Mr. Miller was appointed Postmaster, and transferred the paper to L. J. Moeller and N. M. Miller, who changed its name to the Old School Republican, and conducted it for two years, when it was discontinued.

The Tornado, edited by R. P. Sage, and The Straightout Harrisonian, pub- lished by Allen, Sage & Beverage, were publications of the Presidential campaign of 1840.

The Whig Battering Ram or Straightout Revived, edited by R. P. Sage, was one of the publications of the campaign of 1844.

The Ohio Tribune was a Whig paper which was started for campaign purposes in 1842 by Captain Elijah Glover, who was the proprietor of a book and job office. It lived for about three years under the editorial direction of Walter Thrall, Gideon Stewart, and others. It was discontinued in 1845.

One of the weekly papers of long life and much influence was the Colum- bus Gazette, which dates back to 1849, when George M. Swan bought the material which had been used in the publication of the Ohio Tribune and established Swan's Elevator for the purpose of advocating Free Soil principles. He conducted the paper on this line until 1853, when a temperance paper called the Maine Law Advocate was brought here from Ilocking County, where it had been established, and consolidated with Swan's Elevator. The consolidation was marked by a change of name to the Columbus Elevator. In 1855 Mr. Swan sold the paper to Gainaliel Scott, who left temperance to take care of itself and continued the paper on its original plan, as an advocate of Free Soil principles. In 1856, John Greiner bought an interest and the name of the paper was changed to the Columbus Gazette, with Mr. Greiner as editor. In 1858, Mr. Scott sold his interest to Charles S. Glenn, and the paper was published for a year under the firin name of Greiner & Glenn. In December, 1859, L. G. Thrall, who had been a printer with the Ohio State Journal for eighteen years, bought the half interest of Mr. Greiner, and the paper was published under the firm name of Glenn & Thrall, Mr. Greiner continuing as

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editor for several months until his appointment as Governor of New Mexico. The paper continued under the same management, the editorial work being done by Milton M. Powers, James Q. Howard and Alexander E. Glenn until 1864, when Mr. Thrall sold to Glenn & Heide (Charles S. Glenn and Charles Heide). Mr. Heide was a printer who had been taken into the firm some time before. Glenn & Heide published the Gazette until 1873, when Mr. Heide retired and Mr. Glenn continued the publication alone until his death in 1874, when the paper passed into the hands of his widow, Mrs. S. A. Glenn, and was conducted by her with S. S. Peters and others as editors until 1882, when she sold to Spahr, Vercoe & Spahr (George T. Spahr, J. H. Vercoe and Charles Spahr), who, in turn, sold, January 27, 1883, to E. O. Randall, who sought to make a literary journal of it. On May 25, of the same year, Mr. Randall sold the Gazette to Hann & Adair, who changed its name to the Living Issue and Gazette, and published it as a Prohibition organ. Subsequently the name was changed to the Home Gazette and published as such by the lastnamed proprietors until 1886, when the paper was bought by George E. Thrall, who had edited it for some time, and was by him taken to Cleveland, where it expired after a few months of unsuccessful effort.

The Ohio Whig Auger and Loco Foco Excavator, Thomas W. H. Moseley editor, began publication in August, 1844, with the announcement that it would be pub- lished until after the election of Henry Clay. Its promise was not kept, and the paper lives in history only as a campaign publication.

The Tax-Killer was the name of a campaign paper issued weekly from the Statesman office in 1846.

The Ohio Press was a weekly Democratic paper, established in 1847 by the late Eli T. Tappan, Matthias Martin being associated with him as editor. It had also a semiweekly edition and, for a short time, a daily edition. It was intended to give expression to the dissatisfaction with the Statesman as the Democratic organ, a mission which it performed with some ability but without financial success. It lived less than two years.

The Ohio Standard was a Free Soil paper established in the fall of 1848 by E. S. Hamlin and Israel Garrard. It was issued part of the time as a daily. Publica- tion was discontinued in February. 1849, but in November of that year Franklin Gale and Thomas Cleveland revived it and continued the publication as the People's Weekly Journal until September, 1850. It was then bought by Orlan Glover, who published it until the spring of 1851 and then discontinued it.

The Campaigner was a Whig campaign sheet published by the proprietors of the Ohio State Journal, beginning in June, 1848.

The Western Mechanic was a weekly, published by H. H. Braden & Co. in 1849.

In the summer of 1851, a number of journeymen printers organized and began publication, under the firm name of H. N. Jennings & Co., of the Daily Capital City Fact. The persons interested in the venture were: E. Burke Fisher, M. L. Betts, J. A. Kissinger, H. N. Jennings, and M. H. Allardt. Mr. Fisher was the chief, and Mr. Betts the local editor. In December of that year, John Geary purchased an interest, and, in November, 1852, the old firm dissolved and a new

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firm consisting of John Geary, J. A. Kissinger and M. L. Allardt took charge. Mr. Fisher retired as editor and was snceeeded by Mr. Allardt. In July, 1854, Mr. Allardt withdrew from the paper and went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Mr. Geary became the editor and continued in that capacity until 1862, when Colonel W. L. McMillan, of the Ninetyfifth Ohio Infantry, beeame associated with him in the editorial management. In September, 1863, the Fact was sold to W. H. Foster, who changed its name to the Daily Evening Express and continued its publication under that name until June, 1864, when he discontinued it.

The Columbian was a Free Soil weekly paper which had its birth in January, 1853. Its principal editor was L. L. Rice, later Supervisor of State Printing, and it was published by Osgood & Blake. In October, 1854, E. S. Hamlin assumed control, and in 1855 it passed into the hands of A. M. Gangewer, who advocated the nomination of Chase for Governor. The following year he merged it into the Ohio State Journal.

The Daily Ohio State Democrat was established December 12, 1853, by Knapp, Osgood & Blake. It was edited by Horace B. Knapp and Charles B. Flood. In the following spring, the Franklin Printing Company was organized, composed of the publishers of the Democrat and H. W. Derby. This company secured control of the Ohio Statesman and consolidated the two papers under the name of the Ohio Statesman and Democrat, the editors of the Democrat becoming the editors of the new paper.

The Columbus Reveille, a daily evening paper, Know-Nothing in polities, made its first appearance in November, 1854. It was published by a company of printers, viz .: Messrs. Thomas S. Shepard, Samuel Bradford, M. L. Bryan and Ira Berger. Eightythree numbers of it were issued, but it was unsuccessful financially and it was suspended in February, 1855. Six weeks before the collapse, Mr. Brad- ford sold his interest to Charles Bliss, father of J. P. Bliss.

The Western Home Visitor, edited by E. A. Iliggins, was removed here from Mt. Vernon in November, 1854, and was issued separately for a short time by the publishers of the Ohio State Journal. In the following January, it was consoli- dated with the Columbian, which was itself merged into the Journal in 1856.

In May, 1855, W. W. McBeth issued the prospectus of a weekly Know-Noth- ing paper to be called the Continental, and to bear as a motto Jackson's words, " It is time we were becoming a little more Americanized." The publication duly appeared and continued for a short time, its principal editor being A. Bann- ing Norton, who had taken a vow never to have his hair cut until Clay was elected President.

The Columbus Daily Enterprise made its appearance in December, 1855, and was continued for a few months by its publisher, John M. Kinney.

The Alliance, a weekly, published by A. A. Stewart, under the patronage of the Independent Order of Good Templars, was issued here first in February, 1856. Its platform was: Total Prohibition ; Annihilation of the Rum Traffie.

The People's Press was a weekly, established in June, 1859, by James B. Marshall, and published as a Douglas organ for a short time.

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The Evening Bulletin was established in the latter part of August, 1860, by a number of printers, who had gone out of the Statesman office on a strike. It was independent politically, but its special purpose was to antagonize the nomination of S. S. Cox for Congress. It lived just fortyfive days.

Common Sense Against the Maine Law, was the name of an anti-Prohibition paper published for a short time by Doctor P. Johnson, beginning in 1853.

One of the ablest, most widely circulated and best hated weeklies ever pub- lished in this city was the Crisis, the publication of which was begun by ex- Governor Samnel Medary, January 31, 1861. It was an eightpage paper, with five columns to the page. It was established at a most critical period in the his- tory of the country, and its mission was to advocate the Monroe doctrine, State's Rights and the settlement of the troubles between the States without resort to arms. It was essentially a peace Democrat paper, and it is not necessary to say anything further than that to convey to the reader an idea of the sensation which its articles created, promulgated as they were at a time when the war spirit was abroad, and when not to be in sympathy with the war seemed to those who were its advocates to be in sympathy with the South. The Crisis did not prevent the war, but it was a great financial success, reaching at one time a circulation of 22,000 copies. Ex-Governor Medary continued as owner and editor until his death, November 7, 1864. The paper then passed into the hands of Samuel A. Medary, who soon took in as partner the late Willoughby Webb, and they, after publishing the Crisis for a few months, sold to Doctor William Trevitt. Doctor Trevitt sought to make the Crisis a compendium of the history of the time, includ- ing all public documents of historical importance as well as the opinions of wellin- formed men on the then burning questions of State and National policy. In 1870, Doctor Trevitt sold the Crisis to Charles H. Matthews, and a few months later, Mr. Matthews sold the concern to Richard Nevins and F. H. Medary, who merged it into the Statesman.

The Union League was a stanch Union paper which was established in the fall of 1863, during the Vallandigham campaign. It was edited by O. B. Chap- man, and was printed at the office of the Gazette. It was discontinued in 1864.

In December, 1865, a company was incorporated for the purpose of publishing a Republican paper to be called the Ohio State Sentinel. The incorporators were Benjamin E. Smith, George M. Parsons, C. P. L. Butler, Theodore Comstock and Henry Miller. Its purpose was said to be to sustain President Johnson as against the dominant element of his party. The paper never materialized.

The Republic, a weekly organ of the Grand Army of the Republic, made its appearance in May, 1867. Its publishers were Wilmer S. Simmons, C. Warren Campbell and Charles L. Griffin. In October of the same year it was moved to Cincinnati.

The Whip-poor-will was printed from January to December, 1866, by a num- ber of boys for juvenile readers.

The Mae-o-chce Press, published by Grubble Brothers and edited by Colonel Donn Piatt, was moved from Bellefontaine to Columbus in September, 1866. Its

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publication here was not a success, and it was moved back to Bellefontaine early in 1867.

The Sunday Morning News was founded in November, 1867, by the late Doc tor William Trevitt. Associated with him, but having no financial interest in the enterprise, was Willoughby Webb, who had held editorial positions on the States- man and Crisis. Doctor Trevitt published the News for three years, selling in 1870 to John Webb and Charles H. Matthews, who conducted the paper until July, 1871, and then sold to Honorable W. T. Wallace, who in turn sold November 17, 1872, to Orebaugh & Brodbeck (E. G. Orebaugh and F. A. Brodbeck). They published the News for fifteen years, reaping a rich financial harvest. In March, 1887, they sold to O. C. Hooper and L. P. Stephens. In the following September, Mr. Stephens retired and J. B. K. Connelly took his place in the firm.

The News was begun as a sixcolumn folio, and is now a sixcolumn quarto, it having been changed to its present form from a ninecolumn folio, when Hooper & Connelly bought the Saturday 'Telegram in December, 1887, and con- solidated it with the property.

Among the men who have at different times done work upon the News, in addition to those already mentioned, are : S. E. Johnson, now of the Cincinnati Enquirer ; Hon. Allen O. Myers; Professor Joseph R. Smith, of the Ohio State University ; the late Lanson G. Curtis, after whom the local Press Club was named ; Benjamin P. Gaines, who was private secretary of Hon. J. Warren Keifer when that gentleman was Speaker of the National House of Representatives, and John A. Arthur, who died in this city after a mysterious assault at his own door.

The Columbus Evening Dispatch was of humble origin, but it has had a remarkable growth. It is one of the few instances of successful cooperative effort, having begun with a capital stock in which labor had a greater representation than money. It was in 1871 that the foundations of this newspaper property were laid. A number of men, most of them printers and all of them having a practical knowledge of the business in some one of its departments, met and decided that the time was ripe for a new journalistic venture. In the latter part of June, 1871, the Dispatch Printing Company was incorporated with a nominal capital stock of $10,000. The incorporators were : William Trevitt, Junior, Samuel Bradford, Tim- othy McMahon, James O'Donnell, Peter C. Johnson, L. P. Stephens, John M. Webb, J. S. B. Given, C. M. Morris, and W. W. Webb. There were ten incorporators and all of them were stockholders except the lastnamed, W. W. Webb. Each of the nine stockholders paid in one hundred dollars, and with a paidup capital of nine hundred dollars, and a press which was the property of Mr. Trevitt, the Dispatch Printing Company began business, it being further agreed that each stockholder should give his labor for ten weeks without drawing any salary, all of his earnings in that period to be credited to him on the books of the company.

The company was organized as follows: Samuel Bradford, President; Wil- liam Trevitt, Junior, business manager; Willoughby Webb, editor ; C. M. Morris, advertising solicitor and city agent; John Stone, city editor; Samuel Bradford, foreman of the composing room. The first number was issued on July 1, 1871.

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The city had previously been canvassed for another paper which was never issued, and about one thousand names had been seenred. The Dispatch Company came into possession of this list, and the Dispatch was delivered to all these persons for a time on trial. Over eight hundred of the thousand remained as regular patrons, and paid from the date of the first issue.

The agreement that none of the stockholders should draw any money for their labor during the first ten weeks was rigidly adhered to, but, beginning with the eleventh week, ench stockholder was paid in cash twentyfive per cent. of his earnings, the remainder being credited to him on the books as so much payment on his stock. During the second and third years, the payment to the stockholders in cash reached fifty per eent. of their earnings, and at the time of the first trans- fer of the property, seventyfive per cent. was being paid to the stockholders in cash.

In the summer of 1874. the Dispatch was sold by the company that had founded it to Captain John H. Putnam and Doctor G. A. Doren for $10,500. These gentlemen had first agreed conditionally to give 812,000 for the property, but on examination they found that the contract for the use of the Associated Press dis- patches, which had been made by the original proprietors with the owners of the Ohio State Journal, was unsatisfactory. When the Ohio Statesman had suspended its daily issne, its Associated Press franchise had been sold to General Comly, who had only leased it to the Dispatch Company. This fact resulted in the sale of the paper to Putnam & Doren for $10,500. This firm bought the press franchise from General Comly, otherwise improved the equipment, and conducted the Dispatch successfully until January 1, 1876, when they sold it to Myers & Brickell (Captain L. D. Myers and William D. Brickell). This partnership continued until Nov. 24, 1882, when Captain Myers, the editor, who had been appointed postmaster of the city, retired. Mr. Brickell bought his partner's interest and became sole pro- prietor.

In its career of twenty years, the Dispatch has had six editorsinchief. Willoughby Webb was the first; John A. Arthur the second, and John M. Webb the third, all of these serving during the control of the original company. Captain John S. Putnam was editor during the ownership by Putnam & Doren, and Captain L. D. Myers while Myers & Brickell were the proprietors. Captain Stephen B. Porter has been editor since the sole proprietorship of Mr. Brickell began. Frank A. Layman beeame associate editor in 1875, but resigned in 1880 to go to Sandusky, where he and his brother Charles bought and for a time published the Journal of that city. Mr. Layman was succeeded on the Dispatch by Osman C. Hooper, who served until October, 1886, when he resigned to accept a position on the Cincinnati Enquirer, and was suceceded by Charles M. Lewis. In November, 1889, Mr. Lewis was succeeded by J. L. Rodgers, promoted from the assistant city editorship.

The first city editor of the Dispatch was John Stone, a printer, still residing in the city ; then John A. Arthur, Lanson G. Curtis, William Galer, Captain Stephen B. Porter, and the present ineumbent, John HI. Green.

The Sentinel was a morning daily, of four pages, backed by Allen G. Thurman,

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Henry Chittenden, John G. Deshler, and other Liberals and Democrats. Its pub- lieation was begun September 15, 1872, and was discontinued November 11, 1878. Its mission was to support Horace Greeley for the Presideney. J. Q. Howard was editor, Henry Reinhard business manager, W. G. Thoman and B. F. Gaines city editors.

The Sunday Herald was established January 1, 1875, by T. J. Ewing, a son of Judge P. B. Ewing, of Lancaster. J. K. Farver was associated with Mr. Ewing in the business department. The venture was not as successful as the proprietor thought it should be, and the paper was sold by him in October, 1876, to Captain John H. Putnam, who changed it from political independence to the support of the Demoeraey. W. S. Furay bought an interest, and later, in April, 1877, became sole owner and made the paper Republican, which it has continued to be up to the present time. In January, 1879, the late Sylvester W. Gale bought an interest, and he and Mr. Furay conducted it jointly until December 14, 1880, when Mr. Gale sold his interest to his partner, but subsequently he published the Herald under a lease from the proprietor. In the summer of 1881, W. S. Furay sold the property to Captain T. W. Collier, formerly editor of the Coshocton Age, but bought it from Collier in August, 1882. Captain Collier went to Raton, New Mexico, where he went into business, and Mr. Furay conducted the Herald until the spring of 1884, when W. J. Elliott got possession of it, but he sold it, after issuing a few numbers, to Samuel Shafer. Mr. Shafer sold it November 2, 1885, to Captain J. C. Donaldson and George L. Manchester, who in turn sold the property February 11, 1886, to Charles E. Bonebrake, the present publisher.

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History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume I, Part 56

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co Publication date: 1892 Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1202

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1202