To the Civil War and Beyond with the Gloucester Free Press: 1827-1871

Introduction


On the following pages you will find readable editions of the Gloucester Telegraph and other Gloucester newpapers published prior to 1877. Together, they not oly give a birdeyes view of the city but a unique viewpoint upon American History.


Newspapers of Gloucester

John Quincy Adams

Overview

The Jacksonian Era

January 1, 1827
the Gloucester Telegraph
"Open to all Parties - Influenced by None"

November 29, 1828 
the Gloucester Telegraph
"Should he live...Andrew Jackson will be the next President"

Gloucester Newspapers
From Pringle's History of the town and city of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts


   The first newspaper in town was the Gloucester Telegraph, issued on the first of January, 1827. It was published weekly until 1834, then semi-weekly until 1873, when it again changed to weekly, and so continued until it went out of existence in October, 1876. 

The Gloucester Democrat was a semi-weekly, first published in 1834, and merged into the Salem Advertiser in February, 1838. 

The Cape Ann Light was begun as a weekly edition of the Gloucester Telegraph in 1843 and discontinued in 1873. 

The Gloucester News, also a semi-weekly, was first issued in 1848 and in 1851 was merged into the Gloucester Telegraph. 

The Cape Ann Advertiser was first a monthly, as the Gloucester Advertiser from 1856 to 1857, then semi-monthly to the fifth of December the same year, when it took its present name and was published every two weeks until November, 1858, since which time it has been issued weekly. 

The Gloucester Bulletin was a weekly paper from November, 1877 to the 30th of April, 1888. 

The Gloucester News, daily, published its first number the 28th of June, 1884, and its last on the fourth of February, 1886. 

The Cape Ann Breeze, daily, was first issued on the 20th of August, 1884. 

The Gloucester Daily Times commenced publication June 16, 1888. 

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was controversally elected the sixth President of the United States in 1824. Andrew Jackson won the plurality of electoral votes that year, but failed to recieve a majority of them forcing a decision in the House of Representatives. In the House Henry Clay ,of Kentucky, threw his support towards Adams swaying some midwestern states to give Adams the win.


As President, Adams sought to expand Foreign Trade and to make major investments for internal improvements. This agenda  would come to be known as the American System and was designed to unite disparate regional interests in the promotion of a thriving national economy.

Contemporary Gloucester Notables

Fitz Henry Lane

Wikipedia Page

John J. Babson

Page of Note

Thomas Dalton

Wikipedia Page

Thomazine Younger

Page of Note

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