Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
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2,372 issues from 1887 to 1895, published in Waterbury, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
According to historical accounts, this family of Democratic newspapers was founded in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1881 by an Irish-born Cornelius Maloney. The first Irish immigrants arrived in Waterbury during the early 1830s, and by the 1880s they comprised about half of the city population. By this time, the Irish had largely overcome discrimination from the Protestant community and were establishing themselves as a formidable force in local politics. Maloney served as a Democratic Representative in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1887 and 1888.
According to city directories, Maloney operated a weekly newspaper in Waterbury known as the Valley Democrat in 1882-83. The paper was renamed the Waterbury Valley Democrat (1884-85) and the Sunday Democrat (1886-87). The first daily edition, the Waterbury Evening Democrat, appeared on December 5, 1887. This important publication reported chiefly on news and sports in Waterbury itself, but also included columns for the neighboring towns of Naugatuck, Oakville, and Watertown. It was later billed as the only Democratic paper in the industrializing Naugatuck Valley.
The Democrat began as a family affair. Cornelius Maloney and his brother, Michael Thomas Maloney, had established the publishing firm of C. & M. T. Maloney in 1882. The brothers first learned the printing and newspaper business in New Britain, where Cornelius had apprenticed with Oviatt & Guernsey and later worked for the New Britain Record and the New Britain…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Waterbury, Connecticut, 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