The Evening Statesman (Walla Walla, Wash.)

• 1903–1910
• Newspaper

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2,109 issues from 1903 to 1910, published in Walla Walla, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.

The first newspaper in Walla Walla County was the Washington Statesman, founded in 1861 as an independent weekly. Two pairs of newspaper entrepreneurs had separately obtained presses in order to begin a newspaper in the Walla Walla region. Brothers William and R.B. Smith had purchased a used press from The Oregon Statesman. Around the same time, Nemiah Northrop and Raymond Rees bought an old press from The Oregonian. Once the partners realized the existence of the others, they decided to consolidate their efforts to publish the first issue of the Washington Statesman on November 29, 1861. In 1878, the Statesman became the Inland Empire’s first daily newspaper, although daily editions were not published continuously until 1880. The title fluctuated through the years to include: the Walla Walla Statesman, The Statesman, and finally, The Evening Statesman from 1903 to 1910. During this time, the paper was deeply involved in Democratic Party politics.

Of the original owners, R.B. Smith, Northrop, and Rees, Smith retired in January 1862 and Northrop died in 1863, leaving the newspaper to Rees and his brother, S.G. Rees. When William H. Newell became proprietor in 1865, the paper showed its Democratic beginnings by ardently supporting President Andrew Johnson. In 1878, Newell tried to make the Statesman a daily, but it was discontinued after his death later that year. Newell’s son-in-law, Frank J. Parker, took over the paper, and in 1880, daily editions were tried again, this…

Genres

News

Published in

Walla Walla, Washington, 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

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