The United Opinion (Bradford, Vt.)
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595 issues from 1882 to 1922, published in Bradford, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
Readers in eastern Orange County, Vermont and northwestern Grafton County, New Hampshire have been served by the weekly Opinion since 1865. Araunah A. Earle, who had been responsible for the Orleans Independent Standard in northern Vermont, started the National Opinion in Bradford in 1865, but by October 1866 he had repurchased the Standard and returned to Barton. His editor and business partner, David W. Cobb, purchased the paper and published it until 1874, joined briefly by William H. H. Earle. In 1874, the Bradford Publishing Company hired Ben F. Stanton as publisher and editor. He changed the paper’s name to the Bradford Opinion. Unrecorded difficulties, most likely financial, led to the simultaneous publication of competing weeklies from 1879 to 1881. The Orange County Publishing Company maintained the Bradford Opinion, while Stanton countered with Stanton’s Bradford Opinion.
The acrimonious rivalry ended in November 1881 when Harry E. Parker acquired both papers. Parker continued the weekly as the United Opinion and also issued a daily. Only two issues of the Daily Opinion survive, but it appears to have been published from at least 1881 through December 1884. Parker was involved with the Opinion for 47 years. His daughter, Sara K. Parker, was listed on the masthead as associate editor from 1909 to 1924 and later as the president of the Opinion Publishing Company. In 1916, a national trade journal mentioned that she was one of only two women editors in Vermont. For…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bradford, Vermont, 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