Der Lecha Caunty Patriot (Allentaun, Pa.)
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504 issues from 1859 to 1869, published in Allentown, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Lecha Patriot (“Lehigh Patriot”), a family of newspapers based in Allentown in Lehigh County, existed for nearly half a century, serving the German-speaking population of the Lehigh Valley, the second largest concentration of Germans in 19th century Pennsylvania.
Published weekly, the Lecha Patriot had a consistent editorial voice, first as Der Anti=Freimaurer, und Lecha Caunty Patriot (“The Anti-Free Mason, and Lehigh County Patriot”), an Anti-Masonic organ founded in 1827, and then later as a Whig and, finally, a Republican paper. During its lifetime, the Patriot went through many editors and owners. Its founder was John D. Roney, a lawyer who came to Allentown from neighboring Bucks County and who passed the newspaper off to Alexander Miller after only about two years.
The revolving door of owners resulted in frequent changes in the newspaper’s nameplate. After the Anti-Masonic movement waned, the Patriot attempted to extend its reach to the entire Lehigh Valley by incorporating Northampton County into its name, calling itself Der Lecha Patriot und Northampton Caunty Wöchentlicher Anzeiger (“The Lehigh Patriot and Northampton County Weekly Gazette”).In 1839, the Anzeiger merged with the Northampton Democrat based in Easton, the seat of Northampton County, to form Der Lecha Patriot und Northampton Demokrat (“The Lehigh Patriot and Northampton Democrat”). It should be noted that the “Democrat” of the latter title meant “democracy” in general and not the Democratic…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
- 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