Butler Citizen (Butler, Pa.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,192 issues from 1879 to 1906, published in Butler, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published in Butler, Pennsylvania, from 1877 to 1922, the Butler Citizen had roots in the American Citizen and the Butler County Press and continued these papers’ commitment to the Republican Party. Maj. Cyrus E. Anderson said farewell in the American Citizen of April 14, 1869, accompanied by a greeting from the paper’s new owner/editor, John Henry Negley, a local attorney and descendant of one of the early settlers of Butler. Negley also purchased the plant of the Butler County Press and named the new publication the Butler County Citizen. William Clark Negley became his father’s partner in November 1872 and then sole owner in September 1888. The Citizen (as it referred to itself in print) was active during years of enormous growth in Butler and environs, with local prosperity fueled by oil and natural gas wells, a boom in manufacturing (steel cars, plate glass and bottles, bricks, etc.), and railroad expansion. The population of the town of Butler exploded in the second half of the 19th century, increasing eightfold from 1,148 in 1850 to 10,853 in 1900.
The Citizen was noteworthy for its consistency of format and editorial philosophy through the decades of the Negleys’ proprietorship. It was a weekly under the Negleys, with a few minor schedule changes, from Friday to Wednesday to Thursday. (New owners later changed it to a daily-except-Sunday schedule.) The format altered only slightly, from eight columns and four pages to nine columns and four pages. The main visual…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Butler, Pennsylvania, 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