Putnam Patriot (Putnam, Conn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,177 issues from 1908 to 1949, published in Putnam, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Putnam Patriot was a weekly newspaper published from 1872 to 1962 in Putnam, a rural town located in the northeastern corner of Connecticut. Starting in the early 1800s and lasting into the mid-1900s, eastern Connecticut was an important site for the United States textile industry. Putnam was home to one of the earliest cotton factories built in the U.S., the Pomfret Manufacturing Company, which opened in 1806, and the town later became one of eastern Connecticut’s main textile manufacturing towns, home to numerous cotton, wool, and silk mills.
The Patriot was started by Everett C. Stone in 1872. Allen B. Lincoln’s 1920 history of Windham County described Electa Woodworth Stone, Stone’s wife, as an “executive and all-round newspaper woman” who had much to contribute to the early success of the paper. In 1882, the Patriot passed to Alexander W. MacDonald, who had previously worked as a newspaper printer in New York City for publications such as Scientific American, starting a decades-long MacDonald family involvement with the paper. Alexander’s son Arthur S. MacDonald would serve as editor and publisher, and after Arthur’s death in 1932, his wife Katherine C. MacDonald became president of the Patriot Press, Inc. publishing company.
The Patriot published mainly local and state news from a Republican viewpoint. In addition to Putnam, it covered news from surrounding towns in Windham County, such as Eastford, Pomfret, Thompson, and Woodstock. Always of note on the pages…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Putnam, Connecticut, 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