Republican News Item (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??
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706 issues from 1898 to 1912, published in Laporte, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Created out of Lycoming County on March 15, 1847, the small (452 square miles) county of Sullivan lies in the wild and rugged hills and valleys of the Endless Mountains of north-central Pennsylvania, between the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River. These lands were part of the Province of Pennsylvania’s 1768 purchase from the Iroquois. The county always has been entirely rural, with no settlements of great size. It was named in honor of state senator Charles Craven Sullivan, of Butler County, who greatly aided the passage of the enabling legislation for the new county. Its historic industries include lumbering, leather tanning, and glassmaking, with tourism growing in importance beginning in the late 1800s.
State officials charged with choosing a county seat for Sullivan trekked on foot and horseback into the geographical center of the wilderness in 1847 and drove a stake marking the site of the future courthouse. The town was laid out in 1850 and named Laporte, in honor of John Laporte, the last surveyor-general (1845-51) of Pennsylvania. Laporte was described in 1925 as the smallest county seat (population 175) in Pennsylvania by historian A. Howry Espenshade; at the time of the 1860 federal census, it had grown to 208.
The Sullivan Republican was launched by Samuel F. Colt, Jr., in February 1883, using the press that had belonged to the Sullivan County Democrat. Colt sold the newspaper in 1884 to William M. Cheney (1859-1921), a native of Laporte. Cheney…
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- Laporte, Pennsylvania, United States
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- English
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- Chronicling America
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