Information on Old Newspapers from Somerset County

Information on old Newspapers
from Somerset County, Maine

**Early Somerset County Newspapers (to 1872)**
**extracted by Abby Balderama**
**from "The Press of Somerset County, Maine"**
**by Samuel L. Boardman**
Name of Newspaper	Date of Pub.	Place of Pub.
Somerset Journal* Workingman Workingman and People's Press* Workingman and People's Press Democratic Somerset Republican Skowhegan Sentinel* Democratic Clarion* Republican Clarion* Somerset Reporter Investigator Mann's American Miscellany and Family Physician* Mann's Physician and Down East Screamer American Miscellany Somerset Spectator Farmer and Mechanic Union Advocate* Somerset Telegraph Somerset Farmer Fairfield Chronicle	1823-1843 1843 1843-1845 1845-1853 1828-1831 1831-1841 1841-1857 1857-1868 1868-?? 1844 1847- (not regular) ??-?? 1852- * 1852-1853 1856-?? 1857-1861 1861-1865 1872-??	Norridgewock Norridgewock Norridgewock Skowhegan Norridgewock Milburn (Skowhegan) Skowhegan Skowhegan Skowhegan Skowhegan So. Norridgewock Skowhegan Skowhegan No. Anson Skowhegan No. Anson Skowhegan Skowhegan Fairfield

Notes about Early Somerset County Newspapers
by Abby Balderama

* Somerset Journal, 1824 & 1828, is being indexed by David C. Young
* People's Press 12/12/1844 (1 issue only) can be accessed through the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library and must be requested one week in advance.
* Skowhegan Sentinel, 1831-1841, is being indexed by David C. Young
* Democratic Clarion 1842-43, 1853, (3 issues only) can be accessed through the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library and must be requested one week in advance.
* Republican Clarion, 1858-1868 (Scattered issues) can be accessed through the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library and must be requested one week in advance.
* URSUS catalog says that scattered issues of Mann's American miscellany (Skowhegan, Me.) from 1848-1852 are available at ORO Special Collections (Library use only)
Mann's American Miscellany, 1848-1852 (4 scattered issues) can be accessed through the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library and must be requested one week in advance.
* Volume 4, No. 50 of the Somerset Spectator was the last one published
* Union Advocate, 1860-1869, 1874, Vol. 5-13 (complete) can be accessed through the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library and must be requested one week in advance.

The Maine Book
by Henry E. Dunnack, Librarian of Maine State Library
Augusta, Maine 1920
Copyright, 1920, by Henry E. Dunnack
p. 82
1785 Falmouth Gazette, first newspaper in Maine, established to aid the agitation in favor of separation from Massachusetts. Convention at Falmouth to consider separation.

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Other pages on this site with more information on
old newspapers

The Press of Somerset County, Maine by Samuel L. Boardman

This article appeared in the "History of the Press of Maine" edited by Joseph Griffin, 1872, Brunswick, ME

Other Newspapers Published in Somerset County

Skowhegan:

Somerset Reporter/Independent Reporter for 1885-1940 is available on microfilm (URSUS on-line catalog says at ORO Microforms)

Independent Reporter, 1910-1951(Complete) can be accessed through the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library of the University of Maine and must be requested one week in advance. (See "Additional Information on the Fogler Library" for more information on the Fogler Library.)
Independent Reporter, 1941-1951, available on Microfilm at the Fogler Library.

Hinckley:

Goodwill record, 1904-1957 (Scattered) in ORO Special Collections (library use only)

Madison:

Madison Bulletin, 1899-1904, Microfilm at the Fogler Library (located on the first floor in the Microforms area).

Additional Information on the Raymond H. Fogler Library,
University of Maine at Orono

Some Maine newspapers (in paper copy) are found in the Special Collections Department of the Fogler Library (in the Library Annex). One week's advance notice is required before these newspapers can be made available for researchers and photocopying is generally not allowed (due to the fragile nature of most of these old newspapers). In addition, many of the old Maine newspapers are available on microfilm in the Government Documents and Microform area of the Library; they can be viewed on the first floor of the library.

Maine Newspapers in the Fogler Library
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
Orono, ME 04469-5729
(207) 581-1661

Where copies of the old newspapers may be found

Colby College library -- has newspapers for Lewiston, Monhegan, Portland, Topsham, and Waterville.
Maine State Library

Links to other USGenWeb sites with information on Newspapers

History of the Press in Maine
Maine Newspapers Published in 1860-1861 (Standish, Maine USGenWeb site).
Maine Newspapers.
Research Helps Page - Maine USGenWeb Genealogy

Links to current Maine Newspapers On-Line

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