Shepherdstown Register (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,354 issues from 1849 to 1922, published in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Promising to serve the local interest and remain politically neutral, the Shepherdstown Register first hit the streets on December 4, 1849. Over the following century, the Register provided its readers with regional, national, and international news every week.
The Register owed its existence to a partnership between Maryland newspaperman Henry W. McAnly and a local schoolteacher. McAnly felt strongly that the newspaper should remain politically neutral, a unique stance to which many successive owners and editors of the Register adhered. In its early years, the paper changed ownership several times. After working with several partners, Henry McAnly eventually sold the paper J. T. H. Bringman in 1851, a veteran newspaperman and prior owner of The Democrat and Carroll County Republican in Maryland. Bringman eventually sold the paper to John H. Zittle, who reaffirmed the paper’s commitment to “no particular sect, denomination or party.”
John Zittle oversaw the Register for nearly three decades, keeping readers informed of the latest local gossip and national news, entertained with short stories and poetry, and advised in agricultural and industrial matters. True to his word, Zittle opined relatively little on politics. Yet the Register ceased publication in June of 1861, and Zittle served in the Civil War as a Confederate officer in the 2nd Virginia Infantry. The Register resumed publication in 1865, and Zittle continued its publication until 1883, when Harry Lambright…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 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