Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-09-07
COPY OF PAPER OF
1862 is RECEIVED
BY EDITOR OF PILOT

A copy of the Marathon County Rec
ord of Thursday, January 80, 1852,
the fourth issue of the publication
printed under that title, was RECEIVED
by the editor of the Pilot last week
from c. ]. ,Hildreth, of Albany, Ala,
editor and proprietor of the Albany
Advertiser. Mr. Hildreth was sum-
moned from Milwaukee in the year
1862 to assist in editing the proposed
publication. The issue has been pre-
sented to the mayor in response to Mr..
Hildreth's suggestion.
The letter which Mr.. Hildreth wrote
follows:
"His Honor, the Mayor of Wausau,
Dear Sir:
when l was a boy working on the
Milwaukee Sentinel l heard they were
going to start a paper in Wausau.
at once wrote to Mr.. Chase, its pro-
posed editor eli r. Chase) and asked
if / could help He told me to come
on and | went | travelled little way
by railroad, then two days in an open
sled by way of Plover and arrived safe
ly. The thermometer was then about
thirty below and afterwards went to
forty. l took hold of the paper, and
got out about four issues. You see
the date of the paper is 1862. | am
S5 years old, and / thought the paper
might interest some of them, so |
send it with my blessing.
yours very truly,
&c. ]. HILDRETH.
The Marathon County Record was
started in January, 1862, but it was not
Marathon County's first publication.
A paper called the Central Wisconsin,
had been in business since 1858, when
it was started by j. w. Chubbuck and
John Foster, the former of whom con-
Quoted it until 1861. The property was
then purchased and the paper publish
ed as the Marathon County Record for
"a very brief period. In 1852, shortly
after it had commenced publication,
the Record was purchased by j. c..
Clarke, and later sold to Michael Stat
ford, who again called it The Central
Wisconsin. In 1868 the paper was sold
to R. H. Johnson and his brother, c.
w. Johnson. G. w. Johnson later dis
posed of his interest and until 1909,
the Central Wisconsin was edited by
r. H. Johnson. Eli r. Chase, who is
mentioned in Mr.. Hildreth's letter was
a prominent lawyer and able writer,
postmaster and justice of the peace,
also district attorney. He died in Mar
tineZ, CAL, in 1912.
We regret not being able to produce
facsimile of the Marathon County
Record. The front page contains col
of oduorticiro of fhn loft Cnt In
eight point type and with names of ad-
vertisers outstanding. 1t includes the
| familiar names, Chase and West, at
torneys and counsellors at law; Park
and Sharpstein, attorneys and counsel
| lors at law; Van Myers and Alban, at
torneys and counsellors at law; l. E.
Thayer, M. D.; G. Rood, M. D.; Jacob
Paff, general dealer; R. E. Parcher
general dealer; John Cramer, George
Ruder, B. Ringle, and also the names
of seven inns-the Forest House, Lake
Superior House, United States Hotel
Twin Island House, Avery House
Phelps House, Lloyd House and Jenny
House. The next is a column of poems
and short items. A long article on
wisconsin and the Worlds Fair in
London" heads the third column and
| in it the worlds fair of 1862 is empha-
sized as the greatest thing of its kind
ever attempted. Quite few war notes
are scattered about the first page, and
one entire column is given over to
state items.
The composition of the Wisconsin
Assembly given in an article headed
Facts in Regard to the Assembly,
1t follows: "The statistical list of the
Assembly of 1852 has been printed
From it we gather the following facts
E. Palmer is the oldest man in the
house. He is 63 years of age and has
lived in the state five years. There
is none less than twenty-seven. There
are four of that age. OF the 101 mem.
bers, 43 were born in New York,
in states now seeded, viz: Virginia
and Tennessee; 6 in Ireland, 55 in Ger
many, in Prussia, in England, l In
France, 1 in Prince Edwards Island
in Norway and 1 in Wisconsin. FREQ
S. Ellis is the oldest resident of the
state. He was born at Green Bay ant
is 32 years of age. No member has
resided in the state less than 2 years.
| The editorials on page are long
and detailed. The financial condition
of Marathon county rs discussed in al
editorial practically a column il
length, and figures are used generous
ly One might believe he was read
ing a paper of today if the headline
1.-The Allied Force Unable to Subdue
Mexico" were read. Local news i:
brief, and a column of news from the
front features
| Charles A. Single of Col. Barstow':
cavalry regiment is mentioned as bacl
on a leave of absence. Among the
names mentioned as arrivals at ths
Forrest House were 8. Strobridge,
E. Armstrong, M. P. Beebe, c.. A. Sin
gle, c. J. Hildreth, l. S.. Cohn, Jus
tin Morgan and John Curran.
Advertisements on the inner pag,
disclose the amazing price of 12h
cents pound for butter, and the sam,
for cheese. Wood, per cord, is valued
at $3.50 and $500.
The Marathon County Record wa
six columns wide,. Volume l, Numbe
4, which Mr.. Hildreth sent, is, we be
lieve, one of the last issues put out un
der that name,