Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa)
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6,578 issues from 1899 to 1920, published in Marshalltown, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
In April 1851, Henry Anson was the first European settler to arrive in what is now Marshalltown in Marshall County, Iowa. In 1853, he named the town Marshall after a Michigan town in which he had previously lived, but the name was changed to Marshalltown in 1862 to avoid confusion with another Iowa town. The following year, Marshalltown replaced Marietta as the county seat.
Marshalltown’s Evening Times-Republican was formed from the consolidation of two early Marshalltown newspapers, the Marshall County Times and the Marshall Republican. The Marshall County Times was established in 1858 by Edwin N. Chapin and Royal H. Barnhart and published weekly. It changed hands frequently over the next ten years, eventually returning to Chapin’s ownership in 1869. A daily edition was started on April 27, 1875, and soon after this, the paper was purchased by Arthur S. Burnell. Thomas Mercer and Thomas E. McCracken founded the Marshall Republican, publishing weekly beginning on July 1, 1871. In 1875, the paper began to publish semiweekly and was soon sold to Halsey Lee Merriman. The Times and the Republican merged in 1880, when Burnell traded the Marshall County Times to Merriman in exchange for his printing business. Merriman consolidated the papers into the Weekly Times-Republican.
This new publication struggled to gain stability. In 1882, Silas C. McFarland purchased an interest in the Times-Republican. The paper became the Evening Times-Republican in 1890 and Merriman retired a year…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Marshalltown, Iowa, 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