Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31

where he died in 1850, aged seventy
years.
This Association should rear q monu-
ment over his grave to mark the last
resting place of the first editor Of
newspaper in West Virginia on the west
side of the Allegheny mountains.
The second paper established in
MonongaIia county was The Monongalia
Spectator. the first number of which
was issued in October, 1915. 1t was
published every Saturday by William
McGannahan. publisher of the Laws OF
the Union The sheet was eighteen by
twenty-four inches, four pages, six
teen columns. No column rules were
used. The subscription price was two
dollars per year in advance, and "clean
rags" were
TAKEN IN PAYMENT
thereof at four cents per pound.
The Monongalia Herald came next.
It was printed by William NJ. Barbour.
The first issue was on December oath,
1890. Wheat, rye, oats, fax, linen,
lindsey. wool, tow, bacon, tallow bees
wax and rags, were taken on subscrip-
ton.
Newspapers now multiplied in the
county. or followed each other rapidly.
The Northwestern Journal made its ap-
pearance may 18th, 1922. 1t was pub
Tshed by n. B. MADEIRA and edited by
James Barbour.
The next was the Monongalia Chron-
icle. which began its existence in 1925,
with Henry e Carpenter as publish
ers. Its motto was The Freedom Of the
Press is one of the great bulwarks Of
Liberty
Francis MADEIRA and Enos D. Morgan
began in 1928, the publication of the
Monongalia Farmer the first agricul-
tural paper published in West Virginia.
But in 1884, Morgan purchased the in
terest of MADEIRA, and began the publ
cation Of the Democratic Republican.
E. D. Morgan was born in 1907, and died
in 1857. He was the son of blackwell
Morgan. the famous frontier warrior
and Indian fighter. He established
The Republican at Morgantown, March
%. 1929. and in October of the same
year the name was changed to The
Republican and Preston and Monon-
gala Advertiser.
January %, 1881, Elisha Moss began
the publication of the monaghan.
The Democratic Watchtower was pro-
iected in 1912, but owing to difference
of opinion among the projectors, it was
never issued. Joseph H. Powell, in
1913. founded the Virginia Shield,
Democratic paper. Another Democratic
paper. the Mountaineer, was published
by Boaz B. Tibbs. in 1S45, and on Sat-
urday. February Il, 1916, George S.
Raw published the first number of a
Wing paper. which he called the West
ern Virginia Standard. This was the
first paper in Moaongalia county that
made a speciality Of local news. To
follow in detail all the newspaper en-
terprises in Monongalia county, down
70 the Morgantown Weekly Post, es-
tablished March u. 1864 BY Henry NJ.
Morgan. who is the son of Eaos D. Nor
gan. so intimately connected with the
history Of journalism in the Mononga-
bela Valley. and to the founding Of the
New Dominion, in April II, 1876. by
William l.. Jacobs and Julian E. Flem-
ing. would be to write long chapter
far 100 long for such a paper as this.
THE WORK AT WHEELING.
The history of the newspaper bust
ness at Wheeling, would, if written, fill
a volume. The first newspaper ever
published in that city was the Reposi-
tory. which began its existence in 1907
A Mr.. Armstrong was its editor and
proprietor. and the enterprise was the
talk of the people far and wide. The
paper on which it was printed was
thick. coarse and of a yellowish hue.
. The face of the type and the manner OF
printing were IN striking contrast with
the work of our day. The life of The
Repository was short. We do not know
the exact date on which it ceased to be
issued. but a traveller who saw Wheel
ing in 1910. and wrote an interesting
description of it at that date, says:
In 1905. there was a printing office, a
book store. and a library. but the first
two we're forced to leave town for want
Of patronage, but the last is still sup
ported by the people" After The Re-
pository. there came in the first half
Of the century. a long list Of journalistic
enterprises. among them being the
founding Of the Times. Gazette. Tele-
graph. Virginiar, Young America, Ad-
vertiser. Union. Argus, Press. and The
News. all Of which are defunct long
ago. IN 1913. The Virginia Stats lei
tung was established. It was the first
newspaper in the State printed in the
/ German language. L subsequently