Cameron County Press (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.)
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641 issues from 1898 to 1911, published in Emporium, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Cornelius B. Gould (1826-1897) arrived in Emporium, Pennsylvania, on the last day of February 1866, recruited from Binghamton, New York, by a group of Cameron County Republicans who wanted a local newspaper reflecting that party’s politics. Gould, a native of Cherry Valley, New York, had worked with three newspapers in that state.
In an 1888 memoir published in J.H. Beers’s The History of Cameron County (1890), Gould said that his first impulse upon arriving in Emporium was to get on the next train back to New York, as “a more desolate looking place, or one more uninviting to embark in the enterprise of establishing a newspaper, could rarely be found. The only view that met our eye, on stepping from the cars, was the towering mountains, woods, and stumps.” Gould stayed, despite the discovery that the equipment provided from the defunct Smethport Citizen consisted of a hand press and some type. The Cameron County Press was launched in March 1866 and was an immediate success, allowing Gould to buy a new Gordon press.
Cameron County, located in the Allegheny Mountains wilderness of Pennsylvania, was formed in March 1860 from parts of Clinton, Elk, McKean, and Potter Counties, and named for United States Senator Simon Cameron, of Lancaster. Edward Shippen settled in the area along Sinnemahoning Creek (emptying into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River) around 1810, and the community was known as Shippen in 1861 when chosen as the Cameron County seat. The name was changed…
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- News
- Published in
- Emporium, Pennsylvania, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
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- None stated by the archive
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