The Columbian (Bloomsburg, Pa.)
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2,074 issues from 1866 to 1910, published in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The town of Bloomsburg, located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, already had one Democratic newspaper, the Columbia Democrat and Star of the North (later, succeeded by the Bloomsburg Democrat), and a Republican one, the Columbia County Republican, when the Columbian was established as a weekly on May 5, 1866. The Columbian began as the voice of the Andrew Johnson Republicans under the management of George H. Moore. By the end of the year, Moore sold his subscription list to a group of county Democrats, and the paper was restarted on January 4, 1867, under prominent local attorney John G. Freeze.
The following month Captain Charles B. Brockway joined the newspaper and soon assumed full ownership and modernized its operations. When the Bloomsburg Democrat was purchased and absorbed on January 1, 1869, the Columbian became the sole Democratic paper in Columbia County. Ownership of the newspaper then changed hands several times over the next few years, with Henry L. Dieffenbach purchasing it in 1871, Brockway resuming control a year later, and then Dieffenbach buying it back once more in July 1873.
On October 1, 1875, Brockway purchased the Columbian for the final time in partnership with George E. Elwell. Four years later, Brockway retired, and his interest in the newspaper was purchased by John K. Bittenbender, with the publishing firm becoming Elwell & Bittenbender. The success of the newspaper and the printing house led to the construction of its own three-story brick…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 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