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A HISTORY OF THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN PREPARED FOR THE CENTENNIAL BY ORDER OF GOV. JOHN J. BAGLEY
TOM S. APPLEGATE, COMPILER
Section I
His name next appeared Dec. 6, 1865, and he was general editor until May, 1871, but up to September, 1873, he contributed political articles to the columns of the Republican. George I. Parsons was editor for one year ending April, 1863, and Theodore Foster for nearly two years from Dec! 23. 1863. Nelson Jones and George P. Sanford both held the position of local editor. Sanford Howard was agricultural editor for nearly three years, and since his death the position has been ably filled by his widow. On the retirement of Mr. Bingham in 1873, the chief editor has been W. S. George with James W. King as city editor and principal assistant.
The early history of The Ingham County News, published at Mason, is particularly interesting, and the compiler is pleased to be able to present it so much in detail. The material is furnished by the founder, D. B. Harrington, in a series of articles written by him for the News. Mr. Harrington says he reached Mason June 1, 1859, having his printing material in a wagon. This material consisted of the debris of what had been known as The Public Sentiment office, a small paper which had been printed at Grass Lake, Jackson county, during the "great conspiracy" troubles. The newspaper type had before this been used in printing The Michigan Essay, which was established in Detroit in 1809. It was French type, and its age could only be guessed at. When Mr. Harrington began to unload his printing office, he found his body type in "pi, " in the bottom of the wagon. He took it into the office in pails, and occupied his first ten days in "sorting pi. " He tells amusing stories of his first issue, which was made June 23, 1859. Mason then had but seventy voters, and the settlers were very poor. Notwithstanding this. The News was not the first paper printed there. Long before the republican party was organized, a whig paper, called The Ingham County Herald, was published there by D. W. C. Smith.
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