From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hunterdon County Democrat
The Hunterdon County Democrat
The Hunterdon County Democrat is a weekly newspaper that
serves Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Currently owned
Sister publications
by Penn Jersey Advance, Inc., its offices are in Raritan The Democrat purchased The Frenchtown Star in 1932,
Township. It is one of the largest paid weekly newspapers which had been published in Frenchtown since 1879, and
in New Jersey, with an estimated total circulation of more renamed it The Delaware Valley News. In 1949 The Milford
than 21,000.[1] It is published every Thursday. Leader was also purchased and combined with The
Delaware Valley News.[3] The newspaper was shut down in
September 2008.[5][6]
History The Democrat launched a free-circulation weekly
The first newspaper to serve Hunterdon County was The newspaper, The Hunterdon Observer, in August 1987.[3]
Hunterdon Gazette and Farmers’ Weekly Advertiser, estab- Another free weekly, The Warren Reporter, serves Warren
lished at Flemington on March 24, 1825, by Charles Ge- County. A monthly magazine, Horse News, is also a mem-
orge, who shortened the paper’s title to The Hunterdon ber of The Democrat’s publishing group. Penn Jersey Ad-
Gazette in 1829. He discontinued The Gazette on May 2, vance bought The Delaware Valley News, The Hunterdon Ob-
1832, but retained his shop in Flemington. He sold this to server, The Warren Reporter, and Horse News in its 2001 ac-
John S. Brown, who revived the paper on July 18, 1838.[2] quisition of The Democrat.
Later that year, on September 5, 1838, a rival newspa-
per to The Gazette first appeared under the name The Hun-
terdon Democrat. The editor, George C. Seymour, ensured
References
that the newspaper held to the principles of the Democ- [1] "US Newspaper - Search Results". Audit Bureau of
ratic Party. In 1852 Seymour sold the newspaper to Adam Circulations. 2008-09-30.
Bellis, also a staunch Democrat.[3] http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/
On July 3, 1867, The Hunterdon County Democrat made newstitlesearchus.asp. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
its debut, taking the place of both The Hunterdon Democrat [2] Myers, William Starr (1945). The Story of New Jersey.
and the erstwhile Gazette (which had changed its name Lewis Historical Pub. Co.. p. 179.
to The Democrat after having been transformed into a De- http://books.google.com/
mocratic paper in 1866). The editor during this time was books?id=HtgMAAAAYAAJ.
Robert J. Killgore. His son, Anthony Killgore, later took [3] ^ Stothoff, Mrs. Frederick (1989). "Ch. 6,
over the editorship, serving until 1922. Alex L. Moreau Communication". The First 275 Years of Hunterdon
and D. Howard Moreau then became the owners of The County, 1714-1989. Hunterdon County Cultural and
Democrat. Following the death of A.L. Moreau in 1933, D. Heritage Commission.
Howard Moreau became sole owner of the newspaper, http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/history/
until his death on June 7, 1963. After Moreau’s death his Ch6-Communication.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
son-in-law H. Seely Thomas Jr. became publisher of The [4] ^ Perone, Joseph R. (2001-02-01). "Advance unit
Democrat. Thomas hired Edward J. Mack as editor of the purchases five publications". The Star-Ledger: p. 17.
newspaper in 1965.[3] [5] Lausch, Brandon (2008-09-22). "Frenchtown-based
Family ownership continued in the 1980s when weekly newspaper to cease publication after 129
Thomas was joined in the publication of the newspaper years". MyCentralJersey.com.
by his three children, Catherine, John, and Howard. http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
Catherine’s husband, Jay Langley, became editor in 1988, article?AID=/20080922/NEWS/809220340.
while Mack rejoined the newspaper in 1989 as general Retrieved 2008-12-16.
manager.[3] Catherine Langley succeeded her father as [6] Brickman, Rachael S. (2008-09-23). "The Delaware
publisher after his death in 1994.[4] Valley News closes". Delaware Valley News.
In February 2001, Penn Jersey Advance, Inc., a unit http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2008/
of Advance Publications (Newhouse), bought The Democ- 09/the_delaware_valley_news_close.html.
rat and its sister publications. Based in Somerville, New Retrieved 2008-12-16.
Jersey, Penn Jersey Advance is the parent company of
NJN Publishing, a network of newspapers in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.[4]
External links
Hunterdon County Democrat website
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