Richmond Daily Register (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,236 issues from 1918 to 1922, published in Richmond, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
The ravages of the Civil War left Richmond, Kentucky, without a newspaper as early as 1862. Several startups failed in short order during the war, but in 1866, B.H. Brown launched the successful Kentucky Register. Starting with only a few drawers of type and a used hand crank press, the paper was touting “the finest editorial and library rooms in the state” by 1880.
Brown sold half interest in the Democratic paper to Judge William C. Miller in 1868. Three years later, Brown sold his remaining interest in the Kentucky Register to Francis Marion Green, a Richmond lawyer who never married or held political office of any kind. Within a year, Miller retired, leaving Green as the sole proprietor. He would remain so until his death in 1895, though he had at least one notable editor during his tenure. The infamous Madison County newspaperman, French Tipton, who was later shot and killed by a rival journalist, took the editorial reins in 1875 until he left the paper in 1887. Green was succeeded by civil engineer Capt. Samual F. Rock who began to publish both the weekly Register and a semiweekly edition known as the Semi-weekly Register. Rock is said to have also owned the Valley View Argent, the Ford Index, and the Irvine Leader, making him one of the biggest publishers in the state at that time. The Semi-Weekly Register ceased publication soon after 1900. In 1907, Rock sold the weekly to Thomas H. Pickels, who maintained the Kentucky Register until 1917 when it was sold to Grant…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Kentucky, 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