The Logan Republican (Logan, Utah)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,328 issues from 1902 to 1921, published in Logan, Utah, digitised for Chronicling America.
When the Logan Republican debuted in 1902, the city of Logan, Utah, an outpost 80 miles north of Salt Lake City, was home to nearly 5,000 residents and a small agricultural college.
More than four decades earlier, in 1859, Mormon settlers had established Logan under orders from Brigham Young. Young was determined to continue expanding the Mormon kingdom following the “Utah War,” a period of tension between the church and the United States government over control of the territory. The conflict ended with Young’s removal as governor.
Built on the banks of the Logan River (named for trapper Ephraim Logan), east of the plush Cache Valley, the settlement included 100 homes by 1860. A decade later, a railroad spur connected Logan to the transcontinental line, and the city grew. Logan’s plentiful water supply attracted farmers. Early businesses included a sawmill, a tannery, and a lime kiln, but agriculture fueled the local economy. By 1900, the Cache Valley had become Utah’s hub of dairy production. Logan was its biggest town.
The Logan Republican first appeared on Wednesday, September 10, 1902, under the management of N. Ralph Moore, “editor and proprietor.” At the time, Logan’s dominant newspaper, the Journal backed the Democratic Party and enjoyed widespread influence and prestige and solid financial support. Challenging the Journal proved difficult for Moore. His name was dropped from the Republican’s masthead after only three months, and Joel Ricks, a Republican Party…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Logan, Utah, 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