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printers, Samuel S. Hussey and Henry 1). Robinson, 

 and is now in a flourishing condition under the same 

 management, having absorbed the old Inquirer into 

 itself. 



After several years abroad Mr. Morrissey returned 

 to the island and purchased the Inquirer, Mr. Cobb 

 having removed to Boston. Mr. A. P. Moore was after- 

 ward associated with Morrissey, and after the latter 

 removed from the island, carried on the paper himself 

 for a short time under financial difficulties; but was 

 obliged to give up the effort, and it passed into the 

 hands of Edward M. Gardner for a while, and after- 

 wards was transferred to Alfred Macy, who continued it 

 through the war of the Rebellion. But it had been for 

 some years in a decline, and finally in 1865 Messrs. 

 Hussey & Robinson bought out the whole concern 

 and merged it in their own, giving to their paper the 

 double title Inquirer and Mirror. 



For nine years after this date this was the only paper 

 published in Nantucket. Mr. Isaac H. Folger in 

 1874 started the Island Review, at first a very small 

 affair; but it was soon after enlarged and improved, 

 and continued to issue semi-weekly, and at times tri- 

 weekly, and even daily for a brief period. Mr. S. 

 Heath Rich became associated with Folger on the 

 Review, and its career was four years in duration, or 

 until the autumn of 1878, when its proprietors bought 

 the Advance at Brockton, Mass., and removed to that 

 place. 



Mr. Arthur H. Gardner, a young graduate of the 

 Inquirer and Mirror office, immediately entered the 

 opening thus made, issuing the first number of the 



