The Somerset Herald (Somerset, Pa.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,463 issues from 1872 to 1900, published in Somerset, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Somerset Herald in Pennsylvania was the direct successor to the Herald and Whig and the Somerset Standard and a more distant relative of the Somerset Herald and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Register. The Herald was a weekly newspaper from 1870 to 1929 (including a daily edition also called the Somerset Herald which appeared for one week in 1889 while court was in session) and a semiweekly from 1930 to 1936 when it ceased publication. Its nameplate carried the legend, “Established 1827”–perhaps a reference to the earliest Somerset Herald which began publication September 16, 1828, under George Mowry and which was also issued in a German edition.
The Herald’s early editor and publisher, Edward Scull (1818-1900), was born in Pittsburgh, studied law in Westmoreland County, and moved to Somerset in 1846 to start a legal practice. He was an active member of the Whig Party, and then a Republican after the birth of that party, and served as a political appointee and elected official. Scull was appointed collector of internal revenue by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and held that post until late 1866. He was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1869, and again collector of internal revenue from 1873 to 1883. Scull was elected as a legislator to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses. After launching the Somerset Herald, Scull purchased the Somerset Standard and merged its subscription list with that of the Herald. Beginning in 1878, his sons, Edward B. and George R.,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Somerset, 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