Audubon County Journal (Exira, Iowa)
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1,291 issues from 1897 to 1921, published in Exira, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
Exira is the oldest town in Audubon County, Iowa, founded in 1857 along the East Nishnabotna River. The town was named after Exira Eckman, the daughter of Judge John Eckman, who agreed to purchase a significant amount of property in the new town on the condition that it was named after his daughter. Another of Exira’s founders, Daniel M. Harris, was the first lawyer in Audubon County and was elected county judge in 1856, serving two terms. In 1859, Harris was elected to the Iowa State House of Representatives and served through 1861. Harris later gave up his career in law and politics for the newspaper business, establishing newspapers in several towns across western Iowa, including the Audubon County Defender in Exira, before eventually settling in Harrison County, where he managed the Missouri Valley Times from 1876 until his death in 1911.
George W. Guernsey established the Audubon County Journal in Exira in September 1884 as a weekly independent and non-partisan newspaper. Following Guernsey’s death a few years later, his widow continued to publish the Journal for a short time before selling it to Chester A. Marlin in 1899. In 1905, William H. Lancelot purchased the paper and his son, William J. Lancelot, Jr. took over as editor.
William J. Lancelot, Jr. first came to Audubon County in 1876 and worked as a farmer until 1885. He then went into business as a merchant, while also acting as the county correspondent to the Iowa State Register of Des Moines until his father…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Exira, Iowa, 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