The Farmington Times (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
867 issues from 1905 to 1922, published in Farmington, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Farmington Times of Farmington, Missouri, began in 1874 under the direction of Charles E. Ware and Isaac Harrison Rodehaver. Ware sold out his half of the newspaper in 1875 to Richard H. Sylvester. In 1879, Theodore D. Fisher became editor and, in 1881, bought out the entire paper. Fisher would serve as editor of the Farmington Times for the next 30 years. The Times was a four-page weekly paper published each Thursday. It focused on Democratic politics and covered local and national news of interest to the citizens of Farmington and St. Francois County.
Fisher was considered to be an editor of unusual gifts and was well respected in the world of business in Farmington. He owned the paper until 1902, when theTimes consolidated with another paper in town, the St. Francois Herald. The new corporation was known as Farmington Times Printing Company, and for a short while, the two papers agreed to share the combined title of the Farmington Times & Herald. However, it did not take long for the owners to decide that the Farmington Times, being one of the oldest papers in the area, should carry that name alone. So, in 1905 the paper went back to being called the Farmington Times.
Theodore Fisher’s wife, Susie, helped in the editing and publishing of the newspaper throughout his career. Shortly after Theodore bought the Times, in 1881, Susie Fisher gave an address to the Missouri Press Association calling for women to participate in the full range of activities related to of…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Farmington, Missouri, 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