The Citizen (Frederick City, Md.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
781 issues from 1895 to 1915, published in Frederick, Maryland, digitised for Chronicling America.
Several generations of the Baughman family of Frederick County, Maryland were associated with the weekly Frederick Citizen (1890-1895) and later The Citizen (1895-1923) newspaper beginning with John W. Baughman (1815-1872), who acquired it in 1844. Sons J. William Baughman (1846-1914) and Louis Victor Baughman (1845-1906) took over as editors and publishers of The Citizen in 1872. A third brother, Charles H. Baughman and his son C. Francis Baughman assumed control of The Citizen in 1906 and continued operations until it ceased publication in 1923.
During the Civil War, John W. Baughman’s insistent pro-Confederate editorial stance displeased military authorities who banned the paper and forced the Baughman family into southern exile from Frederick. Their situation was made even more precarious by the service of Louis Victor Baughman in the Confederate cavalry. Frederick literally paid a heavy price during the war when local leaders saved the town from destruction in 1864 by raising $200,000 in cash and supplies after the invading Confederate General Jubal Early demanded that sum as ransom. After the Baughman family returned in 1865, and despite its location in a Republican Party stronghold, The Citizen resumed publication and continued its support for the Democratic Party. Louis Victor Baughman became a leader in both the state and national party organizations and was elected to two terms as the Maryland State Comptroller of the Treasury. He also served as president of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Frederick, Maryland, 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