The Eastern Argus was a newspaper published in Portland, Maine , United States, from 1803 to January 1921. In early 1921, it was succeeded by the Portland Press Herald .
6-584: The newspaper was founded by Calvin Day and Nathaniel Willis . Its offices, along with the offices of all the newspapers in the city, were destroyed on July 4, 1866, in the Great Fire of 1866 . At the time of its closure, it was the "oldest newspaper in Maine published continuously without change of name." Among those with a business interest in the paper at that time were Don Carlos Seitz and Ernest C. Bowler . It
12-598: The Potomac Guardian ". Young Nathaniel was put to work at once in folding papers and setting types. At Martinsburg he used to ride post, with tin horn and saddle-bags, delivering papers to scattered subscribers in the thinly settled country. At the age of fifteen young Nathaniel returned to Boston and entered the office of the Independent Chronicle . He also found time, while in Boston, to drill with
18-857: The "Fusiliers". In 1803, invited by a Maine congressman and other gentlemen of the Republican Party , he went to Portland , [Maine], and established the Eastern Argus in opposition to the Federalists . He married Hannah Parker in 1803; children included Nathaniel Parker Willis , Sara Willis Parton ( Fanny Fern ), Richard Storrs Willis , Lucy Douglas (born 1804), Louisa Harris (1807), Julia Dean (1809), Mary Perry (1813), Edward Payson (1816) and Ellen Holmes (1821). Back in Boston in 1816, Willis established The Recorder newspaper, "published every Wednesday afternoon at no.76 State-Street, ... entrance through Mr. H. Messinger's Hat-Store or in
24-738: The Federalists." The paper was friendly to the French Revolution and opposed the Federalist Party . Later, it was friendly to the Democratic Party . It was strongly in favor of separation of Maine from Massachusetts and the formation of the U.S. state of Maine, which was accomplished in 1820. This article about a Maine newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nathaniel Willis (1780%E2%80%931870) Nathaniel Willis (1780–1870)
30-599: Was an editor and publisher in Boston , Massachusetts , USA, in the 19th century. He established the Eastern Argus and the Boston Recorder newspapers, and The Youth's Companion magazine. Willis was born in Boston in 1780 to newspaperman Nathaniel Willis (1755–1831). In 1787 he moved to " Winchester , [Virginia], and was employed in [a] newspaper office, and subsequently at Martinsburg , [Virginia], on
36-607: Was owned by the Independent Publishing Company. Prominent editors and journalists employed by the Eastern Argus included John Adams , Thomas Haskell and Seba Smith . In 1803 "gentlemen of the Republican party" invited Nathaniel P. Willis, father of the widely acclaimed journalist Nathaniel Parker Willis , to move from Boston to Portland to establish the Eastern Argus "in opposition to
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