Cedar Falls Gazette (Cedar Falls, Iowa)
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601 issues from 1860 to 1871, published in Cedar Falls, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
Henry A. and George D. Perkins established the Cedar Falls Gazette in 1860, aiming to provide the citizens of Black Hawk County with “a medium through which shall be made known all the interesting events of the day, whether transpiring at home or abroad.” The Gazette featured a regular “Field and Garden” column edited by Peter Melendy, the president of the Cedar Valley Agricultural and Manufacturing Association, as well as local news, poetry and literature, market reports, and political news.
In the first issue, published March 16, 1860, the Perkins brothers declared their support for the Republican Party, writing that its principles are “best calculated to promote the vital interests of this country, and to secure the greatest number the greatest good.” The Gazette covered the Civil War extensively, including correspondence from Iowa units and personal accounts from Iowa soldiers. It also expressed sharp criticism of Cedar Falls’ North-west Democrat, for what the editors described as “its sympathy with the South” and “its rank treason to the government under which it lives.”
In August 1862, George Perkins enlisted as a private in Company B of the 31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served for seven months before returning to Cedar Falls and the Gazette in early 1863. Three years later, the Perkins brothers sold the Gazette to Smith Bartlett Goodenow, and George Perkins moved to Chicago, where he worked for the Northwestern Associated Press until 1869. He then moved to Sioux…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress