Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.)

• 1898–1913
• Newspaper

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4,908 issues from 1898 to 1913, published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.

The Santa Fe Daily New Mexican was published from 1885 to 1897 in the capital of Santa Fe. It was succeeded by the Santa Fe New Mexican, which first appeared January 3, 1898, and was published through October 31, 1951.

Charles B. Hayward first published the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican on July 7, 1885, with the announcement, “This paper today greets its readers with a new heading, resuming the name which properly belongs to it as the successor of The New Mexican established here by Messrs. Manderfield & Tucker, nearly twenty-three years ago.” Hayward, former publisher of the Joliet Sun, returned to Illinois in 1886.

That year, T. W. Collier, formerly a newspaperman in Ohio and Raton, New Mexico, took over the New Mexican as editor and business manager. The paper consisted of four pages, and a subscription cost $10 per year. Politically, it supported the Republican Party. Collier ran the New Mexican for two years. He then returned to Raton, where he resumed editorship of the Range.

Max Frost was owner and general manager of the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican from 1890 to 1894, and again from 1897 to 1908. In 1898, Frost changed the paper’s name to the Santa Fe New Mexican. During part of his tenure with the newspaper, Frost served as territorial adjutant general and as a member of the Republican central committee. He oversaw the creation of the Spanish-language version of the newspaper, (El Nuevo Mexicano) in 1890. Prior to that, some articles in the New Mexican were published…

Genres

News

Published in

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

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

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