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INDUSTRIES - - -
- The
Shelby Pioneer
-
- The
Oldest Newspaper in Shelby (July, 1858)
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-
- Photo
courtesy of the Shelby Museum
-
- Located
on the "west side of Gamble street"
-
- The
Shelby Pioneer monthly newspaper was formed by C. R. Brown in
March of 1858. Mr. Brown was an
- attorney
and advertised that business in an early edition of the newspaper
as follows:
-
- "Matson
& Brown"
-
- "ATTORNEYS
AT LAW, Insurance
- Agents
and General Collectors; will
- attend
promptly to all business in their
- profession
in Richland and adjoining
- counties.
- L.
B. MATSON,
Mansfield, Ohio
- C.
R. BROWN,
Shelby, Ohio"
-
-
- L.
B. Matson was: Lyman B.
Matson,
born c 1831, died August 23, 1876. Mr. Matson born c. 1832, married
- Zeporah
Ward
in Richland County 1858 and they made their home in the 1st Ward
in Mansfield, Ohio.
-
- C.
R. Brown
is somewhat of an enigma since he was the advertised editor of
the "Shelby Pioneer" but has to
- this
point not been located in any of the 1850, 1860, or 1870 censuses.
The 1860 census of Shelby, Sharon and
- Jackson
Townships turned up no Browns who were printers. The only
printer listed was a John
Brant.
There are
- Brown families
listed in Sharon and Jackson Townships, however they were all
living on farms. There are two Brown
- families
listed living in Shelby in 1860: George C. Brown who was
a carpenter and John
Brown
who was a cooper.
-
- One
possible reason for the difficulty in finding census information
for C.
R. Brown is
that the "Shelby Pioneer"
- was
started in July of 1858 and there is record of papers being published
as late as May, 1859 (see above) with
- advertising
paid for (by the year) until August 2, 1859, however no issue
of the "Shelby Pioneer" has been
- discovered
with
a publication date after the May, 1859 issue. partially shown
in Raymond Wilkinson's book. (1)
-
- It
is also noted that "The Shelby Pioneer" was a monthly
publication. Volume 1, No. 5 was the November, 1858
- issue.
Volume 1, No. 9 (partially shown in Raymond Wilkinson's book.
(1)) was April,
1859 instead of March as it
- should
have been had it been published each month. Volume 1. No. 11,
May 1859 is an issue held at the Shelby
- Museum.
It appears that either there was a numbering error on the April
issue or an issue was skipped.
-
- So
it appeares that Mr. Brown moved into
the area and started his newspaper "published for the business
- men
of Shelby" and after a year or so, folded and moved on to
another area.
-
- We
do know that C.
M. Kenton
was living in Jackson Township, probably Crestline, in the 1860
census. He listed
- his
occupation as: printer. In mid-April of 1862, Mr. Kenton started
Shelby's second newspaper "The Shelby Express".
- This
was to be a weekly newspaper and it only ran a couple years before
Mr. Kenton moved on
as well.
-
- A
possible clue to Mr. Brown's future may be read into an advertisement
he ran in his "Shelby Pioneer" newspaper:
-
-
- C.
R. BROWN
- ATTORNEY
AT LAW
- Insurance
& Real Estate Agent,
- Offers
to sell, or exchange for Real
- Estate,or
other good property,
- ONE
THOUSAND ACRES
- Of
excellent Missouri land. These lands
- will
be sold in lots to suit purchasers,
- and
at reasonable rates.
-
- Office
- West side Gamble Street,
- Shelby,
Ohio .
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-
- If you have information
about or copies of the "Shelby Pioneer" newspaper or
perhaps additional material on C. R. Brown
- and his whereabouts
after leaving Shelby, we would be very interested!
-
-
-
- (1) The Story
of Early Shelby, Raymond Moore Wilkinson. Published 1962
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- If you would be
interested in adding to, or commenting on the items on this page,
- please contact
us.
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