Akron Daily Democrat (Akron, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,100 issues from 1899 to 1902, published in Akron, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Akron Daily Democrat was launched in 1892 by the Dobson brothers, William and Russell. The Dobsons had been publishing a newspaper in Bowling Green, Ohio, and chose to pursue journalistic opportunities in a larger, developing city. After contacting numerous individuals across Akron, they found an interested party in William T. Sawyer, a lawyer and chairman of the Summit County Democratic Committee. The three men, who were noted as “rough play-fellows,” formed the Akron Democrat Company. The company consolidated with a previously published title, the Akron City Times garnering its readership and retaining its political affiliation. The Akron Daily Democrat began publication on April 21, 1892.
The Dobson brothers’ slogan of “turn the rascals out” quickly came to fruition with the Akron Daily Democrat. Their strong-armed methods upset the status quo of the Akron political scene, and by election season in their first year of publishing the paper had helped to promote interests of the county’s Democratic candidates, all of whom were elected to office. The paper continued its support of the Democratic Party even following a change of owners. In 1898, former Daily Democrat employees Edward S. Harter and Fred Gayer purchased the paper. Despite claims that they would have the Daily Democrat back in six months, the Dobsons were never able to reacquire the paper.
The scope of the Akron Daily Democrat was international, but the paper always tried to find a way to keep an…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Akron, Ohio, 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