Gadsden County Times (Quincy, Fla.) 190?-Current

  • 1907–1963
  • Newspaper

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1,865 issues from 1907 to 1963, published in Quincy, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.

The Gadsden County Times began publishing in Quincy, Florida in 1901 and is still in publication today. By 1909, it had consolidated with the Quincy Moon. In 1942, LaMar Watts, editor of the Chattahoochee Tribune and Chattahoochee correspondent for the Gadsden County Times was drafted in WWII. At the time, both papers were published by the Quincy Publishing Company. Watts never returned to either paper, and in 1951 or 1952 the nameplate of the Gadsden County Times changed to “The Gadsden County Times and Continuing the Chattahoochee Tribune.”

The early years of the Gadsden County Times saw many dual publishers and editors. R. E. L. McFarlin published and edited the newspaper from inception until sometime between 1913 and 1918, when R. L. Sweger joined the newspaper as editor. Sweger took over both editing and publishing in 1918, which continued until 1939, when the Quincy Publishing Company took over publication and C. C. Nicolet became editor.

In the 1940s, the newspaper moved toward having separate publishers and editors. In 1942 the Quincy Publishing Company produced the paper with Stanley Parkman as editor. In 1944 K. A. MacGowan was named as publisher and Parkman continued as editor. In 1945 Cranston Thomas became editor. In 1946 H. C. McFarlin was listed as associate editor. MacGowan stopped publishing the newspaper in 1947, a role that John H. Perry assumed until 1957, when J. L. Hutchinson became publisher. McFarlin continued as editor from 1947 until 1955 when he…

Genres
News
Published in
Quincy, Florida, 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

Issues

March 1907