Wauwatosa News (Wauwatosa, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,135 issues from 1900 to 1922, published in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
Wauwatosa is located west of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County. Surrounded by the lush and fertile river basin of the Menominee River, it is in the ancestral territory of the Potawatomi, Menominee, and Ojibwe and was ceded in the Treaty of 1833 by the Potawatomi to the United States Government. Credited as the founder of Wauwatosa, Charles Hart built two mills along the river in 1835, structural icons that would first make the town known as Hart’s Mills. Wauwatosa experienced explosive growth in the mid-19th century, made possible by transportation links to Milwaukee and the great influx of German and Irish settlers.
A devastating fire on July 10, 1895, left many commercial businesses in ruin, but the disaster only spurred new growth in the city. With many 19th– and 20th-century Victorian-style buildings, Wauwatosa is known as the “city of homes.”
The Wauwatosa News was first published in 1885, but ceased publication just after a few issues. It wasn’t until 1899 that the Wauwatosa Printing Company under Lysander R. Gridley’s leadership began to continuously publish the weekly. John R. Benoy, a printer from Milwaukee who had worked at the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Milwaukee Journal and the Evening Wisconsin, soon joined the Wauwatosa News and eventually became the editor and proprietor in September 1907. He ran the newspaper until his son Cornelius took over in 1921. Other editors and publishers included D.G. Rowe, and Nancy and Lee Perry.
From 1908 to 1939, the Wauwatosa News…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 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