. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. t, in the days when the RepublicanParty was yet very young, those who were opposed to the administrationand who gave their adherence to the new party, felt the need of a countypaper that would represent them. Accordingly, in 1858, the Carrollton__^ _ gt . Press was established, with S. P. Ohr as editor. When the war broke out enlisted and went South, at thehead of a company from this this time there was a Union Leaguein the county, and under its influenceand by its contributions the Press wasrevived under the name of
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. t, in the days when the RepublicanParty was yet very young, those who were opposed to the administrationand who gave their adherence to the new party, felt the need of a countypaper that would represent them. Accordingly, in 1858, the Carrollton__^ _ gt . Press was established, with S. P. Ohr as editor. When the war broke out enlisted and went South, at thehead of a company from this this time there was a Union Leaguein the county, and under its influenceand by its contributions the Press wasrevived under the name of the Carroll-ton Patriot, with Elder Craig as itseditor. He was followed, after sometime, by Mr. Wm. B. Fairchild, whowas one of the ablest editors who everpracticed his profession in this it suffered a decline in thehands of Lee, Lusk & Piatt and others,until, in 1873, Miner & Lindley, ofJerseyville, bought the paper. ability as a writer and his genialtemper gave the paper a decided lift upward, and when Clement L. Clapp.
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