The Boston Journal

The Boston Journal
The April 10, 1865 front page of
The Boston Daily Journal
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) John Sherburne Sleeper, John A. Dix, Henry Rogers (1837); Col. W. W. Clapp (1886); John H. Higgins (1917)
Publisher Journal Newspaper Company
Founded February 5, 1833
Language English
Ceased publication October 1917 (merged with The Boston Herald)[1]
Headquarters 264 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts  United States

The Boston Journal was a daily newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1833[2] until October 1917 when it was merged with the Boston Herald.[1]

The paper was originally an evening paper called the Evening Mercantile Journal. When it started publishing its morning edition, it changed its name to The Boston Journal.[2]

In October 1917 John H. Higgins, the publisher and treasurer of the Boston Herald,[3] bought out its nearby neighbor The Boston Journal and created The Boston Herald and Boston Journal[1]

Former contributors

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Boston Papers Merged.; Herald Absorbs The Journal and Will Use the Joint Title". The New York Times. October 6, 1917. p. 12.
  2. 1 2 Stanwood, Edward (1886), Boston Illustrated, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York: James R. Osgood & Co., and Houghton Mifflin & Co, p. 102
  3. New York Times "James H. Higgins, Retired Publisher; Also Was Treasurer of Boston Herald for 10 Years After Merger With Traveler Dies at Central Valley In 1917 He Bought The Boston Journal and Consolidated It With The Herald. The New York Times, page 13, August 1, 1938.
  4. Bacon, Edwin Munroe (1886), Bacon's Dictionary of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, The Riverside Press, p. 220.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boston Journal.

Images


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.