Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . emocrat, an Indepen-dent Free Soil paper, dating back over twenty years, and on the other to theDaily Forest City, a Silver Gray Whig, started about 1852, by Joseph andJames Medill. After some coquetting an alliance was formed between the twopapers, and the name of Forest City Democrat adopted for the consolidated ])aperwhich was afterwards changed to the Leader. None of those connected witheither of the original papers are now connected with the Leader. Of those whobecame the publishers of the latter paper Mr. E. Cowles retains his connec
Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . emocrat, an Indepen-dent Free Soil paper, dating back over twenty years, and on the other to theDaily Forest City, a Silver Gray Whig, started about 1852, by Joseph andJames Medill. After some coquetting an alliance was formed between the twopapers, and the name of Forest City Democrat adopted for the consolidated ])aperwhich was afterwards changed to the Leader. None of those connected witheither of the original papers are now connected with the Leader. Of those whobecame the publishers of the latter paper Mr. E. Cowles retains his connectionand is the largest proprietor. The German Wiichter am Erie completes the list of regular daily papers nowpublished in Cleveland. The Herald is published morning and evenimr, therebeing two editions of the evening issue. The Leader is issued in the morningwith an evening edition under the name of the News. The Plain Dealer pub-lishes two editions in the afternoon, and the Wiichter am Erie one afternoonedition. >-yu^ <T .*!«y?:[ yfit 10 ^1^Zi^>~^ H^ Cyfyc-^zm, o^c^, .y^^j Wy —^ /^ v >«»»—».?-^ ;iV. ^ ITS REPRESENTATIVE MEN. 489 A. W. FAIRBANKS. A. \V, Fairbanks, the senior proprietor of the Cleveland Herald,was born March 4, 1817, in Cornish, now Claremont, Sullivan county,New Hampshire. When twelve years old he entered a printing officein Waterford, Saratoga county, New York, with the purpose of learn-ing the business. In those days it was held necessary to serve aregular apprenticeship as a preliminary to becoming a journeymanprinter, and the apprentice had to pass through an ordeal to whichthe learner of the present day is a total stranger. There were thenno machine presses out of the city of New York, nor rollers forinking. The types were inked by dabbing with buckskin balls, ashad been done since the invention of printing. Rollers were, how-ever, introduced within a short time of our young apprentice enteringon his course of education as a prin
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