It is nowīelieved to be the largest newspaper collection in the world,Ĭomprising more than fifty thousand bound volumes, including Reaches back to the founding of the Society, 1875. Theseįiles are carefully preserved and bound. Kansas is furnished the Historical Society for its files. A copy of every issue of every paper published in This superiority is specially manifest that is the newspaperĬollection. In one feature of the Society's activities Historical society in America, with but one exception, and the Newspaper men and women have been on theīoard of directors of the Society, and always dominant in itsĬouncils and management.
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Knew her ideals and traditions and how to serve them and pre. Secretaries AdamsĪnd Martin were pioneer newspaper men in Kansas. The closest relations between these two great Men was the founding of the Kansas State Historical Society.Īnd the Society has always recognized its obligations to the One of the great things done by the Kansas newspaper The job of the Kansas newspaper man is a big one, and if byĬhance one fails to measure up to the Kansas ideals he usually Vital to Kansas shall be given early and constant attention. Great responsibility to be charged with the oversight and per. It is a great privilege to be a citizen of Kansas, and it is a Ment, but Kansas is indispensable to the joy, the inspiration "Other states could be spared without irreparable bereave. Kansas editors are one in their agreement with Ingalls, that However they may differ on other questions, The presentĪnd future Kansas press will see that its splendor is notĭiminished. Her pioneer editors kindled aīeacon which flames across the sky to this hour. They are the principles underlying correct and suc. Ideals of the founders of the Kansas territorial press can neverĬhange. May be modified by time and changing conditions, but the From that fountain flows theĮminence and efficiency of the present Kansas press. There is a perfect successionīy which the methods and ideals of the pioneer editors haveīeen perpetuated to this day. Scores of the second generation are now still in the harness asĮditors of Kansas newspapers.
Of the pioneer editors continued work into that period, just as Rice, Baker, King, Hudson, and a host of others. Second era, reaching down to our generation Prentis, Ware, The editors of that time were succeeded by the men of the Henry Ward Beecher, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph WaldoĮmerson, F. "Beyond the Mississippi" Edward Everett Hale, Thomas H. Sans were ably seconded by such men as Horace Greeley, editor The roll might be extended indefinitely, and for talent, tactĪnd achievement it stands alone. Martin,Ĭolonel of the Eighth Kansas, and later governor of Kansas Īnd M. Walden, laterīishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church John A. Man willing to fight to get peace John M. Anthony, colonel of the Fifteenth Kansas, and a Ross, later United States senator, whose vote saved Man, and long secretary of the State Historical Society Ed. John Speer, founder of the Kansas Tribune, and author of In America, and one of the great business men of his time
Promulgate the idea of the conservation of natural resources Plumb, later United States senator, first to Of "Opportunity," "Blue Grass," and other immortal produc. Ingalls, later United States senator, and author
Richard Realf, the free-state poet, and soldier under Johnīrown John J. Number of eastern papers, and later a soldier and author Here are some of the names of the newspaper men of That it was the pen as much as the sword that made Kansasįree. The brilliant minds of the times, and it can be truthfully said The fierce conflict which raged here attracted When Kansas was battling for freedom for herself and libertyįor America. This high standard was set up in the stirring territorial period In no other state was the press, as a whole,Įver equal to that of Kansas in either ability or enterprise. From the first Kansas regarded the press as Kansas is the only state of which such a workĬould be written. Plete history of every newspaper and periodical published IT IS believed that this is the first effort to record the com.
IN KANSAS FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF KANSASīRIEF STATISTICAL INFORMATION OF THE COUNTIES, 1, 1916 : together with brief statistical information of the countries, cities and towns of the state"Ī HISTORY OF THE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES PUBLISHED
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