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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
Franklin Sawyer, a graduate of Harvard College, and a man of fine abilities, was for a long time. its editor, and among its contributors were Augustus S. Porter, James A. Van Dyke, John Talbot. Charles Jones, Gen. A. S. Williams, and Gen. O. B. Wilcox, all of them prominent and well-known men in their day. Mr. Whitney closed his connection with the paper in September, 1839, and was succeeded by George Dawson, afterwards of the Albany Evening Journal, and Morgan Bates, afterwards proprietor of the Grand Traverse Herald and Lieutenant Governor of Michigan. Hon. Augustus S. Porter had been the proprietor of the office for some time before this change. In March, 1842, Mr. Bates purchased Mr. Dawson's interest, and on November 10, 1843, the paper was sold to A. S. Williams, since a general in the union army, and member of congress from the Wayne county district, who was then a prominent member of the whig party, the principles of which the Advertiser had always supported. Gen. Williams continued to be the publisher of the paper until January 1, 1848, when he sold out to the firm of Rawson, Duncklee & Co., for whom George W. Wisner became the editor, Gen. Williams at this time taking the position of Lieut. Colonel of the First Michigan Volunteers in the Mexican war. On May 17, 1849, Mr. Wisner was succeeded in the editorial chair by Rufus Hosmer, one of the most original and accomplished of northwestern journalists.
The Detroit Tribune was established on November 19, 1849, with Josiah Snow and Henry Barnes as editors, and was published by F. B. Way & Co. It was also a whig journal, and started as a cheap evening paper. In 1853 it passed into the hands of George E. Pomeroy & Co.. with Joseph Warren as editor, and under this management rendered most important and invaluable service in bringing the whig party into affiliation with the anti-slavery democrats, which resulted in the formation of the republican party in 1854, and broke the long hold of the democratic party on power in this state.
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