''The Herald-Star'' is a daily newspaper based in
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Ohio River 33 miles west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 census. The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben, a ...
.
Its history began in 1806 with the founding of the ''Western Herald'' by William Lowry and
John Miller. Miller, who left the paper to fight in the
War of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States, United States of America and its Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom ...
, eventually became governor of Missouri.
James Wilson James Wilson may refer to:
Politicians and government officials
Canada
*James Wilson (Upper Canada politician) (1770–1847), English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada
* James Crocket Wilson (1841–1899), Canadian MP from Quebe ...
, grandfather of US President
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...
, purchased the paper in 1815 and served for 23 years as proprietor and editor.
In 1847, the theretofore weekly ''Herald'' published its first daily edition. The initiator of this move was William R. Allison, who owned and edited the paper from 1846 to 1873.
The paper merged with the ''Steubenville Star'' in 1897 to form the ''Herald-Star''.
[
]Brush-Moore Newspapers Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. was a United States newspaper group based in Ohio which had its origins in 1923 and was sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1967 for $72 million, the largest ever newspaper transaction at that time.[Thomson Newspapers
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, who acquired Brush-Moore Newspapers in 1967.
Ogden Newspapers bought the paper from Thomson in 1996.
References
Newspapers published in Ohio
Steubenville, Ohio
1806 establishments in Ohio
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