The Bennington Evening Banner (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5,791 issues from 1903 to 1922, published in Bennington, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1841, a group of prominent citizens in Bennington, Vermont, including Congressman Hiland Hall, founded the weekly State Banner to represent the views of the Whig Party in Bennington County. The long-running paper has appeared under a number of title variations. “Vermont” was added to the title in 1849. In 1858, it became the Bennington Banner. Two special editions appeared as the Bennington Daily Banner and the Daily Banner in 1877 and 1891. Beginning in 1894, the paper was issued twice a week as the Bennington Semi-Weekly Banner. In 1903, Bennington’s two competing papers were merged to form the Bennington Banner and Reformer, later renamed the Banner and Reformer. A daily edition, also established in 1903, was known originally as the Bennington Evening Banner. Since 1961, it has appeared as the Bennington Banner.
Three families dominated the publication of the newspaper for over one hundred years. In 1842, James I.C. Cook joined the Banner, and members of the Cook family were involved with the paper until 1870, with only a brief interruption from 1857 to 1859. Charles A. Pierce bought the Banner in 1870 and operated it until 1897. His son, Charles W. Pierce, served as editor from 1895 to 1897. Frank E. Howe acquired the Banner in 1902 and, along with his sons Paul and Edmund, published and edited the paper until 1956. When Howe died, the Banner noted that his articles contained “a homespun philosophy and personality all their own” and that he “rather enjoyed stirring…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bennington, 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