OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 479 



to The Age, a weekly temperance paper, then regarded as one of the best conductcl 

 organs of the temperance movement in the country. Financially, liowever, it was not 

 a success, and it was discontinued in the latter part of 1842, a sliort time before Mr. 

 Pearsol started the Express. 



The Moral Reformer, a small temperance weekly, was started by Rev. Henry Miller, 

 in January, 1844. On the foin-th of July of that year he transferred tlie conreni to j! 

 M. W. Geist, who subsequently enlarged the paper, changing the title to Auterican 

 Reformer. Like its predecessor, The Age, it was a pecuniary failure, and in 184.") its 

 publication was suspended. It was subsequently revived at llarrisburg, and published 

 a few months there, as a State Temperance organ, with no better success. 



The Anti-M<isonic Herald was started at New Holland by Theophilus Fenn and Dr. 

 Thos. H. Vesey in June, 1828, and published until April, 1829, when it wa.s removed to 

 Lancaster, and conducted by Fenn & Fenton. Mr. Fenton having retired, Mr. Fenn 

 conducted it until April, 1831, when he sold to Dr. John F. Charles. In January, 1833, 

 Dr. Charles sold to Geo. "W. Hamersly, who published it for eighteen months, when 

 it was united with the Examiner. 



The Lancaster Union was started May 24, 1834, by John L. Boswell, then of the 

 Columbia Spy. On the 28tli of November, 1834, he formed a partnership with Carpen- 

 ter McCleery. It was published by Boswell & ]\IcCleery until April, 183."), when 

 McCleery became sole proprietor. On the 9th of April, 1839, the office was purchased 

 by A. H. Hood. Mr. Hood conducted the paper until October 18, 1842, when he sold to 

 Henry Montgomery. The Union^a.mnexg&fihxth.Q. Independent IFA?// in November, 1851. 



The Independent Whig was established by a joint stock comi)any, at the head of 

 which was Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, in November 18ol. It was started as an organ of 

 the anti-slavery Whigs, iii opposition to the Examiner, whicli was then conservative 

 on that question. The company purchased the old Union from Mr. Hamersly for 

 $6,500, and made it the basis of the Whig. The new paper was edited by Edw. 

 M'Plierson, (now Clerk of the House of Representatives at Washington,) assisted by 

 E. H. Ranch. On the 12th of May, 1853, they issued The Inland Daily, then a small 

 three-column penny morning paper. In the fall of 1853 Mr. Ranch retired, and Mr. 

 INI'Pherson soon after resigned the management of the paper. He was succeeded by 

 Tlieo. Fenn, as publisher, and Harvey L. Goodall, as editor of the Daily, which was af- 

 terwards enlarged and called The Inland Daily Times. In the summer of 1855, The 

 Inland Weekly was started, as an organ of the " American" movement. About thistime 

 the Whig was published for a short time as a semi-weekly. The various enterprises 

 proving a pecuniary loss to the company, Mr. Fenn became the owner of the concern. 

 He finally sold out to Thos. E. & J. J. Cochran, Sept. 21, 1858, who discontinued the 

 Daily Times and changed the name of the weekly to I'he Lancaster Union. (Jn the 

 first of January, 1863, the Messrs. Cochran sold to J. A. Hiestand & Co., who consoli- 

 dated it with the Examiner. 



The Public Register was started in December, 1853, by II. A. Rockafield. as an inde- 

 ].endent paper. In June, 1854, its name was changed to Public Register and American 

 Citizen, and conducted by John F. Huber as an organ of the "Know Nothings" or 

 "American" party, then recently organized. In the fall of 1854, Mr. llnber formed 

 a partnership with M. M. Rohrer. Huber & Rohrer were succeeded by AValter G. 

 Evans, who subsequently sold to Jacob >Iyers, who consolidated it with the Press. At 

 one thne the Register &■; Citizen had the largest circulation ever attained by any paper 

 in Lancaster. 



In September, 1808, a literary monthly publication, called the Gleaner, or M>i,(hly 

 Magazine, was issued by Stacy Potts, jr. editor, and William Greer, printer and publisher. 

 It was a very creditable monthly for that day, but as we have no record of its pidjHcation 

 beyond one year, it was doubtless a pecuniary failin-e. E;icli number contained 48 

 octavo pages and was handsomely pi'inted. 



