Middlebury Register (Middlebury, Vt.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,919 issues from 1886 to 1922, published in Middlebury, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
One of Vermont’s longest running weekly newspapers started in 1836 as the People’s Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat in Middlebury, a thriving agricultural and manufacturing center in northwestern Vermont. The paper changed title six times by 1850. It appeared as the People’s Press, and Addison County Democrat (1838-41), Middlebury People’s Press (1841-43), Northern Galaxy, and Middlebury People’s Press (1843-44), Northern Galaxy (1844-47), and Middlebury Galaxy (1848-50). On January 15, 1850, the paper announced that “a desire to be known–PERMANENTLY–by an acceptable, unpretending, and expressive appellation” resulted in a new name, Middlebury Register. When a group combined the Register with a short-lived rival, the Addison County Journal , the masthead acknowledged the second paper from 1883 to 1885, but returned to the shorter Middlebury Register in 1886. During the last decade of operation from 1937 to 1947, the paper’s official title was once again the Middlebury Register & Addison County Journal.
Of the numerous owners, publishers and editors who were involved with the People’s Press and its successors, five in particular contributed to its longevity and success. Justus Cobb founded the paper in 1836 with Daniel Spooner, and although he left the same year, Cobb returned as printer and publisher from 1842 until 1859. After another hiatus, when he served as Middlebury’s postmaster, Cobb returned to become a partner in the Register Printing Company from 1870 to 1873.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Middlebury, Vermont, 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