The Citizen (Honesdale, Pa.)
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528 issues from 1908 to 1913, published in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Perched in Pennsylvania’s northeast corner, Wayne County is separated from New York by the Delaware River. Honesdale, the county seat named for New York City Mayor Philip Hone, was laid out in 1826 during planning for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. (of which Hone was president) to transship coal from the Lackawanna mining region to the East Coast. The canal carried coal 108 miles to the Hudson River at Kingston. The first steam locomotive in the United States, the Stourbridge Lion, ran on D. & H.C.C.’s track on August 8, 1829.
Founded in 1873, the Honesdale Citizen had a complex genealogy. Goodrich’s 1880 History of Wayne County says it began when “the Wayne County Free Press and Bethany and Honesdale Advertiser was established January 1, 1838, by Paul S. Preston, at Bethany…. In 1840, the Free Press was removed to Honesdale, and, in 1842, [it] took the name of the Beechwoodsman . . . succeeded, in 1844, by the Honesdale Democrat. . . edited by F[rancis].B. Penniman.”
His son, Edward A. Penniman, purchased the weekly, becoming his partner and, finally, the editor on August 25, 1858. The change in name and political affiliation from the Honesdale Democrat to the Republic took place on January 18, 1864. In 1868, Penniman got a new press, type, and format and showcased these with a new title–the Wayne Citizen–which debuted on June 18, 1868, edited by J.C. Wells. Joseph D. Pyott edited the Citizen in 1869, followed by Henry Wilson in 1870. “On the 12th of June, 1873,”…
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- News
- Published in
- Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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