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Nicholas M. Hoover, a native of Armstrong county, settled in Buffalo town- ship, of this county, in 1842; read medicine under Dr. McGill, of Freeport, entered the army in 1861, served until July, 1864, graduated from Jefferson Medi- cal College in 1865, was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and at the close of the war began practice at North Washington, but in less he removed to Butler borough.
David Fowler, who is supposed to have practiced in what is now Washing- ton township, about the close of the third decade of this century moved to Fair- view, and to Martinsburg in 1845, and thence to Englewood, Illinois.
Henry Bullard, who died in 1850, at Fairview, was a contemporary of Dr. A. Barnhart. who settled there in 1840, and of Dr. Fowler.
Samuel Marks, who died in 1854 or 1855, located at Centreville, in 1847, while seven or eight years later, Dr. J. W. Beatty located at Fairview, where he died in 1>>1. Dr. McMillan was there in 1874.
G. W. Coulter, an Ohioan, and Benjamin Pearson, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, located at Centreville in 1862. The first named died in 1-78, leaving Dr. Pearson and Dr. James B. Livingston, who came in the Fifties, and Dr. A. M. Patterson. who came in 1873, in possession of the field.
R. L. McCurdy, now of Freeport, was a well-known physician at Butler in the Sixties.
Eli Conn, who was elected prothonotary in 1872, and afterward acted as sheriff, studied medicine and practiced in Butler for a very short period, when he left the county.
Dr. C. H. Davis, of Cranberry township, was killed by Indians in Arizona. June 4, 1886.
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REGISTERED PHYSICIANS.
The following is a list of the physicians registered in the prothonotary's office at Butler, as required by the law of June 8, 1881, together with location at time of registration, and date of beginning practice. Those registered in 1-51 were : George G. Aitkin, Great Belt, 1871 ; S. D. Bell, Millerstown, 1874; H. C. Birchard, Fairview, 1865; Stephen Bredin, Butler, IS61; Floyd V. Brooks, Evans City, 1877: John E. Byers, Butler, 1878; C. L. Campbell, Brownsdale, 1876; C. M. C. Campbell, Martinsburg, 1881; George H. Chand- ler, Karns City, 1865; J. L. Christie, Petersville, 1877; William R. Cowden, Portersville, 1846; W. N. Clark, Whitestown, 1867; Elder Craw- ford, Ogle, 1878; B. L. Davis, Petrolia ; A. V. Cunningham, Zelienople, 1863; John Deitrick, Petrolia, etc., 1870; B. E. Dennison, Martinsburg, IN60; W. L. De Wolfe, Coalville (now in Millerstown ) , 1879; P. S. Duff (H ), Great Belt, 1863; Andrew J. Edmunds, Martinsburg, IS73; Joseph Eggert, Parker town- ship, 1848 ; George L. G. Eggert, Parker township, 1881 ; J. H. Elrick, Harrisville, 1856 ; Robert Everett, Prospect, 1879; William C. Foster, Petrolia, 1876 ; Samuel Graham, Butler, 1862; David Harper, Karns City, 1870; B. A. IIenlen, North Washington, 1875; Harvey D. Hockenberry, West Sunbury, 1879; James A. Hol- man, Unionville, 1879; Albert Holman, Unionville, 1881 ; N. M. Iloover, North Washington, 1865; William Irvine, Evans City, 1853; Albert A. Kelty, West Liberty, 1872; Clinton S. Kerr, Byrom Centre, 1876; Theodore Kersting, Evans City, 1867: John H. King, Saxonburg, 1872; E. N. Leake, (H) Butler, 1880; H. C. Linn, 1833 ; Joshua M. List, Evans City, 1875 ; Amos Lusk, Harmony, 1849; Joseph S. Lusk, Harmony, 1850; C. F. McBride, Fairview, 1877; George A. McCandless, Middle Lancaster, 1877; W. C. McCandless, Glade, Mills, 1580; C. A. McCaskey, Millerstown, 1874; Samuel E. McClymonds, Portersville, 1877 ; W. V. Marquis, Glade Mills, 1881; Samuel H. Matheson, Centreville, 1854; E. B. Mershon, Saxonburg, 1877; Homer L. Mershon, Saxonburg, 1878; A. M. Neyman, Butler, 1851; Asa M. Patterson, Centreville, 1873; R. L, Patterson, Millerstown, 1872; Benjamin Pearson, Centreville, 1862; Raymond H. Pillow, Whitestown, 1876; O. P. Pisor, Harrisville, 1881; Thomas B. Rhodes, Farm- ington, 1875; C. C. Rumberger, Petrolia, 1872; J. M. Scott, Winfield township, 1871; S. O. Sterrett, Valencia, 1880; S. L. Strain, Harrisville, 1858; D. J. Washabaugh, Anandale, 1876; David W. Webster, Ilarrisville; Adam Weiser, Zelienople, 1848; H. R. Wilson, Portersville, 1873; W. R. Wilson, Porters- ville, 1881; Frank Winter, Zelienople, 1878; and George M. Zimmerman, But- ler, 1870.
The resident physicians, who registered in 1882, and those who located here that year are as follows : James M. Blain, Sarversville; Orville A. Rhodes, West Sunbury ; B. L. Davis, Petrolia ; T. W. Hopkins, Millerstown ; David J. Jones, Forestville ; H. S. George, Saxon Station ; and James E. Montgomery, Clinton township.
The physicians who registered in this county from January 1, 1883, to 1894, are given in the following list :
Thomas Dunn McConnell, Whitestown ; Walter Barber, Prospect ; N. M.
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Richardson, Prospect ; Thomas Hlays Donley, Mars ; and Mrs. Mary E. Harper, Bald Ridge, in 1883.
Joseph C. Irvine, Forward township ; Samuel M. Bippus, Butler ; J. B. Sho- walter. Millerstown ; and A. J. Pyle, Zelienople, in IS84.
Harry Navigo, Karns City ; G. W. Sloan, Butler ; J. C. Barr, Mars ; and Reddick Coulter McCurdy, Butler, in 1885
Daniel W. Fiedler, Harmony ; Edward P. Logan, Saxonburg; and George W. Bean, Butler, in 1886.
John F. Moore, Butler ; Andrew Edmonds, Martinsburg ; William Linnen- brink, Zelienople ; D). Elmer Wiles, Butler ; and Charles T. W. Seidel, Harris- ville, in 1887.
M. P. Cullinan, Petrolia ; W. R. Titzel (H), Butler ; Walker W. McCon- nell, Harrisville ; George M. Silvers, Evans City; and John Charles Hloye, Jacks- ville, in ISSS.
John Calvin Cort, Renfrew ; W. J. Kelly, Parker township; M. E. Head- land, Zelienople ; W. II. McCafferty, Sarver Station; Robert W. Watterson, Zeli- enople ; Samuel E. Ralston, Harmony; and Joseph L. Campbell, Millerstown, in 1889.
Charles L. Tilton, Evans City ; William H. Wallace, Butler ; George D. Thomas, Millerstown ; Jesse E. Mann ( HI), Butler ; J. L. Axtell, Millerstown ; Lysander Black, Butler ; V. F. Thomas, Fairview ; Mrs. Eliza E. Grossman, Butler ; George J. Peters, Butler; Arthur Foster, Saxonburg; and Levi M. Rein- sel, Butler, in 1890.
Harry M. Wilson, Evans City : Joseph Forrester, Butler ; Joseph W. Miller, Butler ; Albert D. Price, Evans City; Horace S. McClymonds, Brownsdale; George G. Shoemaker, Butler ; and Edwin C. Thompson, West Liberty, in IS91.
William J. Grossman, Coaltown; James B. Thompson, Prospect ; Charles J. Stein, Zelienople ; Edwin J. Fithian, Portersville ; Thomas II. Newcomb, Karns City ; George K. McAdoo, Anandale; M. C. Smith, Zelienople ; and J. C. Wil- son, Evans City, in 1892.
W. R. Cowden, Middle Lancaster; Walter N. Humphrey, Portersville ; James A. Wallace, Petrolia ; Harry Lee Brush, Centreville ; W. W. Lasher, Saxonburg; Charles E. Beck, Middle Lancaster ; George L. Fife, Saxonburg; William Plummer McElroy, West Liberty, and John Franklin Turner, Hooker, Concord township, in 1893. Simeon Nicholas Andre, Buena Vista, in 1894.
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
The Butler County Medical Association was organized November 3, 1866, to co-operate more effectually with the State and National Associations in the work of advancing the knowledge of medicine and the status of the physician. The first officers were Amos Lusk, president; A. M. Neyman, vice-president ; Stephen Bredin, secretary ; William Irvine, treasurer ; W. S. Huselton, corres- ponding secretary ; W. R. Cowden, Joseph S. Lusk, Josiah McMichael and Will- iam Irvine, censors; and W. R. Cowden, Amos Lusk, Stephen Bredin, M. M. Rich- ardson and A. M. Neyman, committee on constitution. The articles of association were signed January 3, 1867, the officers named with the following physicians,
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signing the roll :- J. B. Livingston and G. W. Coulter, of Slippery Rock ; E. F. Anderson, of Coultersville; S. H. Matheson, of Saxonburg ; T. J. Black wood, of Glade Mills ; Theodore Frickenstein, of Butler ; and N. M. Hoover, of North Washington. The first act of the new association was the adoption of a fee bill.
The presidents of the society since its organization are as follows: Amos Lusk, 1867; Stephen Bredin, 1868; W. R. Cowden, 1869; Stephen Bredin, 1870-1875; Samuel Graham, 1876; S. D. Bell, 1877; W. N. Clark, 1878 ; David Harper, 1879; Josiah McMichael, 1880; Joseph S. Lusk, 1881-83 ; William Irvine, 1884-85; R. H. Pillow, 1886; W. L. De Wolfe, 1887; Floyd V. Brooks, 1888; John E. Byers, 1889; N. M. Hoover, 1890; A. M. Neyman, 1891; J. C. Barr, 1892; H. D. Hockenberry, 1893 ; and Samuel Graham, 1894.
The office of secretary has been filled by the following named physicians : Stephen Bredin, 1867 ; A. M. Neyman, 1868; G. W. Coulter, 1870; S. S. Tow- ler, 1875 ; S. D. Bell, 1876; C. F. McBride, 1877: R. H. Pillow, 1878-79; John E. Byers, 1880; J. L. Christie, 1881-89 ; S. D. Bell, 1890-1894; and Joseph For- rester, 1894.
The members of the society in 1894, were as follows : S. D. Bell, S. M. Bip- pus, J. E. Byers, Joseph Forrester, Samuel Graham, Mrs. Eliza E. Grossman, M. E. Headland, N. M. Hoover, J. W. Miller, A. M. Neyman, G. J. Peters, R. 11. Pillow and George G. Shoemaker (since deceased), of Butler ; William M. Bar- ber and H. D. Hockenberry, West Sunbury ; J. C. Barr, Mars ; J. L. Campbell, W. L. DeWolfe. J. B. Showalter and G. D. Thomas, Millerstown ; J. L. Chris- tie, Petersville ; J. C. Cort, William Irvine and H. M. Wilson, Evans City ; William R. Cowden. Middle Lancaster; A. IIolman, Unionville; II. S. McClymonds, Renfrew ; O. P. Pisor, North Washington ; S. O. Sterrett, Valen- cia : V. F. Thomas, Fairview ; E. C. Thompson, West Liberty : J. B. Thompson, Prospect ; S. S. Towler, Marionville, Forest county ; A. V. Cunningham, Zeli- enople ; and E. B. Mershon, Saxonburg.
CHAPTER XH.
THE PRESS.
PIONEER NEWSPAPERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA-THE PALLADIUM AND ITS FOUND- ER-THE CENTINEL-REPOSITORY -- PROPOSED HERALD, AND FREEMAN'S JOURNAL- THE DEMOCRATIC HERALD AND JACOB ZIEGLER-WHIG -- AMERICAN -- WILLIAM HAS- LETT-STAR SPANGLED BANNER-UNION, AND UNION-HERALD -- AMERICAN CITI- ZEN-BUTLER CITIZEN-PRESS-FAIR AND FESTIVAL -- NORTHWESTERN INDEPEND- ENT- EAGLE -- OH,MAN'S JOURNAL -- RECORD -- SEMI-MONTHLY -- TIMES -ORPHAN'S FRIEND-TIDINGS-MAGNET-MILLERSTOWN NEWSPAPERS-NEWSPAPERS OF PETRO- LIA AND VICINITY-NEWSPAPERS OF PROSPECT, ZELIENOPLE, CENTREVILLE AND SAX- ONBURG.
T HE beginnings of literary activity in Western Pennsylvania dates back to July 29, 1786, when the Pittsburg Gazette was founded by John Scull. It was the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny mountains, and was distributed by special courier among the sparse settlements adjacent to Pittsburg. The earliest newspaper venture north of that place was the Craw- ford Weekly Messenger, established by Thomas Atkinson at Meadville in 1505. Three years later George Wyeth began the publication of the Mirror at Erie, and in 1811 the Western Press was founded at Mercer by Jacob Herrington. The latter is still one of the leading weeklies of Mercer county, after a checkered career of more than eighty years.
In 1881 the pioneer newspaper of Butler county was established. Refer- ence to the transactions of the commissioners in a previous chapter will show the sums paid out annually to the Pittsburg newspapers, and account, in a meas- ure, for the courage which led to the establishment of a newspaper in Butler. The population of the county was approaching the 10,000 mark, Butler was organized as a borough and society was assuming modern forms, when its first newspaper was founded.
The Butler Palladium and Republican Star was issued August 17, 1818, by John Galbraith. Number 41, of Volume 1, dated March 27, 1819, now in possession of Charles Duffy, is a four page folio of four columns to the page. The typography is very much superior to that of its immediate successors, but the local news is confined almost exclusively to the advertising columns. The rate per annum was two dollars in advance, or two dollars and a half if paid within the year, and the advertising rate, one dollar per square, for three insertions. The advertisements in the Palladium of March, 1819, included the McNair and Lowrey notices, referred to in the chapter on public lands ; the fulling and dying house of William and Henry Neyman, of Centre township ; the shop of Alex- ander Anderson, shoemaker; the general store of M. B. and W. Lowrie: the grist and fulling mills of John Negley ; the store of Charles Cist & Company, of
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Harmony, and the tannery of Hugh McKee. Calls for the settlement of accounts by Patrick Hagerty, William Campbell and Robert Scott, and partnership notices of John Empy and Robert Dickey, blacksmiths, and of Patrick McDermott and William Johnston, blacksmiths.
John Galbraith, founder of the Palladium, was a son of John Galbraith, Sr., a native of Ireland, who served in the War of the Revolution as a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line. In 1796 the family came to Butler county and settled in Centre township, where the sons John, Alexander W., and James, became well- known pioneers. The mother was a daughter of Matthew White, an early set- tler of the county, and brought from Iluntington county a female slave who became free before the emancipation act of Pennsylvania was passed, but remained with the Galbraith family until her death. John Galbraith read law with William Ayres, and was admitted to practice November 10, 1818; but having established the Palladium he devoted his attention to his newspaper until his removal to Franklin, Venango county, in 1819. Ile soon after married Amy Ayres, a daughter of Rev. Robert Ayres, an Episcopal minister of Franklin. In 1828 he was elected to the legislature, and served four consecutive terms in that body. He was elected to Congress in 1832 and re-elected in 1>34. In 1837 he removed to Erie, and was again elected to Congress the following year. In 1-51 he was elected president judge, a position he held until his death, June 15, 1560.
The Butler Centinel succeeded The Palladium in October, 1820. It espoused the Federalist party warmly, and in 1824 was intensely anti- Jack- sonian. Moses and John Sullivan, the editors and owners, adopted as the motto of their journal the following phrase of Washington :- " Watching with zealous anxiety for the preservation of your National Union, and discountenancing what- ever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned." The publishers adhered to this motto and made of their journal a fair newspaper for the time and place. A copy of the Continel of November 18, 1820, Number 7 of Volume I, shows a folio of four pages, each of four columns, and printed in old-time small pica. A lengthy advertisement by Francis R. Shunk, Frederick W. Leopold and Louis Gall-the land committee of the German Society at Har- risburg-appears in this issue. A caution against taking notes, by Joshua McElfish ; an advertisement of Joseph McQuistion, the boot and shoemaker ; of James Thompson, the blacksmith, and of Henry Neyman, the hatter ; together with calls for the settlement of accounts by David Scott, John McQuistion, Potts & Dougal and Ross Gateley, the school-teacher, are all given. The news is gen- erally foreign with a few selected articles. The Sullivans published the paper about four years. They were prominent factors in the pioneer history of Butler and are appropriately mentioned in another chapter.
In the fall of 1524 William Stewart and Joseph Buffington bought the plant, changed the name of the paper to "Sentinel," enlarged it and extended its line of news. The Sentinel of February 11, 1826, was numbered new series, Volume 2, Number 60, old series, Volume 6., Stewart & Buffington being then editors. On April 14, 1526, Buffington retired from the partnership and Stewart con- tinued publication. In his salutatory he says :
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Taught from the cradle to revere those principles for which the fathers of the Rev- olution " pledged their lives and sacred honors;" educated where alone republicanisin in its purity is to be found, in the cabin; it need not, nor will it be thought strange that iny predilections are strongly in favor of the Democratic party.
In May, 1826, the office was moved to the house then occupied by Rev. Isaiah Niblock, formerly used as a printing office by John Sullivan, on the corner of Washington and West streets. The muse of the Sentinel writing the " Car- rier's Address," in January, 1829, became prophetic. Ilis fifth stanza, of twelve lines, discloses his ideas :-
Pause here, my muse -- look forward and you'll see How wondrous great the land of Penn shall be -- Chequer'd with railroads and canals beside; While roaring engines-boats shall on them glide, Bearing our products to every climne,
In rich profusion from the field and mine. What halcyon days shall then succeed our toil! Fruits grow spontaneous from the untended soil! Fat pigs and ducks, with knife and fork transfixed, Cry, "Eat us! Eat us." Wine with nectar mixed Shall to our lips be pressed! How blessings throng! The theme does quite intoxicate my song.
The prices which Stewart paid for type in 1829 are as follows: Pearl, per pound, $1.40; nonpareil, ninety cents ; minion, seventy cents ; brevier, fifty-six cents ; bourgeois, forty-six cents; long primer, forty cents ; small pica, thirty- eight cents, and pica thirty-six cents. Larger primers, from thirty-four to thirty cents, and scabbards and quotations, thirty cents. These prices were subject to a discount of five per cent for cash, but the editor does not show that he took advantage of the liberal terms offered by the foundrymen. Under date, February 6, 1830, Stewart says :
The Sentinel was unable to report last week, his fire-lock beiug out of order for want of elbow grease. A little of the old oil which he first used when he posted himself in But- ler, being applied this week, enabled him to fire off once more. Our patrons may expect a weekly report after this.
In 1830 Parker C. Purviance and George W. Smith purchased the Sentinel, cleared the office of all Democratic tendencies, opposed the Masonic order with vehemence, and then, being true Whigs. gave battle without quarter to the Dem- ocrats. In the campaign of 1810, they exhausted themselves, and soon after, the Sentinel, having finished its mission, went the way of all things human.
The Repository was issued March. 14, 1823, by Maurice and John Bredin. The salutatory sets fourth the belief of the publishers that another newspaper in the place would be useful, and was desired by a considerable portion of the citi- zens of this county. As Democratic-Republicans they claimed the right of expressing their opinions on public men and public affairs, but declared that the columns of The Repository should be open to the opinions of all. This journal was issued every Friday, at the rate of two dollars per annum. The terms for advertising were one dollar per square for four insertions, and twenty-five cents for each continuance. European and Asiatic news items occupied nearly two
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pages, State politics a half page, advertising a half page and miscellaneous papers one page. A notice of the marriage of William Lochead, of Cranberry, to Nancy Renison, of Middlesex, by Squire Stoolfire, and the advertisements of William Hagerty, merchant, and Francis McClure, dyer, appear. On Decem- ber 3, 1824, the publishers of The Repository said editorially :
We have understood that Messrs. Stewart & Buffington, to whom the Butler Sentinel has been transferred, have enlarged their paper. Although the support that a new country like this can afford a newspaper, will scarcely meet the expenses incident to the publication of a paper on a super-royal sheet, yet, being desirous that our readers shall have no reasonable cause of complaint, as to the size of our paper, we will make arrange- ments immediately for publishing The Repository on a larger sheet, and expect that in two or three weeks at farthest, The Repository will appear in a new dress.
The promise was carried into effect on December 17, 1824, when four five- column pages, printed in long primer, were presented to its readers. With the exception of four advertisements and the announcement of enlargement, the paper did not contain a reference to Butler county affairs. The recognition of the Bredin Brothers enterprise by the Sentinel, was so exceedingly slow and modest, that The Repository had to notice this inattention editorially.
In 1831 John Bredin was commissioned judge of the new Seventeenth judi- cial district. Expecting preferment at the bar, he retired from journalism in 1830, and with him his brother, Maurice. The office became the property of James McGlaughlin and John McClelland, who appear to have carried on The Reposi- tory until June 27, 1835, when it bears the imprint of McGlaughlin & Ziegler. Shortly after, David Shannon and John Little became owners, and they may be said to have carried on its publication down to May, 1842, when it sunk its iden- tity in the new Democratic Herald.
The Butler Herald was a paper of the imagination-originating in the brain of George W. Smith, once a member of the Butler bar. The prospectus of the Herald was published in the Sentinel of July 4, 1829, by Smith, who proposed to make it the organ of the anti-Masonic and anti-intemperance people of Butler, as well as of the colonizationists. At first, the editor designed it as a semi- monthly periodical, then as a weekly ; but seeing the Sentinel and The Reposi- tory in possession of the field he concluded to abandon the proposed enterprise.
The Freeman's Journal was proposed May 25, 1830, by Peter Duffy. His object, or one of them, was to teach the dangers of class government, that is a coalition of those who wish to consume without producing, to occupy all public places without being competent to fill them, and to seize upon all honors with- out meriting them. The prospectus of the fournal, at least, leads one to the conclusion that eternal emmity between himself and such non-competents formed one of the motives for embarking in newspaper life. He looked upon the opposi- tion to the Masons as a movement without patriotic, but with selfish foundations. The project was not carried into execution, as he concluded to use the columns of the two journals then published in Butler for scattering his political ideas among the people.
The Democratic Herald was founded in May, 1-42, by James McGlaughlin and Jacob Ziegler. On November 19. 1845, James McGlaughlin issued his vale-
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dictory as publisher, and Samuel G. Purvis, who purchased his interest and became associated with Jacob Ziegler in its management. issued his salutatory. On June 27, 1848, the names of Samuel G. Purvis and Joseph McMurtry appear as publishers, and so continued until February 3, 1849, when James McGlaughlin and Cornelius Coll became owners. On January 12, 1850, the name of Andrew E. Marshall was substituted for that of MeGlaughlin, and under the direction of Marshall and Coll the Herald entered on the second half of the Nineteenth cen- tury, still advocating the principles of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Polk. On March 15, 1851, Jacob Ziegler resumed his place as owner, vice Coll, and announced that " as long speeches are never read, we shall snap them short off by saying : We are Democratic in thought, word and deed, and shall endeavor to be as honorable to political opponents as their conduct deserves."
In April following the office was moved to the house formerly occupied by R. & J. Cunningham. on Main street. where it was issued for some years. On July 5. 1854, the editor charged that the Know Nothing journals were edited by foreigners, and pointed out that Know Nothingism was not a conviction, but a pretence used conveniently by demagogues. Of course the Whig party came in for a whipping, and the editor stated that said party rarely, if ever, obtained victory except by some kind of an ism. or an unnatural and unhealthy excite- ment built on some ism.
The valedictory of Jacob Ziegler. as editor, and the salutatory of Joseph P. Patterson appeared under date March 21, 1855. The attacks on the political fungi of that period, so well sustained by " Uncle Jake." were continued with unabated zeal by the new editor. John H. Negley assumed control of the Her- ald November 28, 1855. On July 3, 1858, Mr. Negley retired and Samuel and John C. Coll became editors and publishers.
The Herald in it- issue of December 4, 1861, announced that it would be mailed to subscribers of the Butler Union, according to arrangement with Mr. Irvin. In the issue of December 11, the valedictory of S. P. Irvin appears, and in it he tells of the consolidation of the Butler Union with the Herald, under the title :- The Union . Herald. On the last given date, the new title appeared at the head of the old Herald, with the firm name of J. C. Coll & Company as publish- ers. In 1867 Jacob and Alfred G. Ziegler purchased the office from Coll, and in 1872-78, the paper was called " Ziegler's Democratic Herald," but was soon changed to the original name.
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