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The Louisville Times was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1884 by Walter N. Haldeman, as the afternoon counterpart to The Courier-Journal, the dominant morning newspaper in Louisville and the commonwealth of Kentucky for many years.
Louisville ( varying pronunciations: US: / ˈluːəvəl / ⓘ LOO-ə-vəl, locally / ˈlʊvəl / ⓘ LUUV-əl, / ˈluːivɪl / ⓘ LOO-ee-vil) is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.
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Origins
The Courier-Journal was created from the merger of several newspapers introduced in Kentuckyin the 19th century. A pioneer paper called The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, The Louisville Daily Journal, began distribution in the city and, in 1832, the Journal absorbed The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature. The Louisville Journal was an organ of th...
Watterson era
Henry Watterson, the son of a Tennessee congressman, had written for Harper's Magazine and The New York Times before enlisting in the Confederate Army. He became nationally known for his work as The Courier-Journal emerged as the region's leading paper. He supported the Democratic Party and pushed for the industrialization of Kentucky and the South in general, notably through urging the Southern Exposition be held in Louisville. He attracted controversy for attempting to prove that Christophe...
Bingham ownership
On August 8, 1918, Robert Worth Bingham purchased two-thirds interest in the newspapers and acquired the remaining stock in 1920. The liberal Bingham clashed with longtime editor Watterson, who remained on board, but was in the twilight of his career. Watterson's editorials opposing the League of Nationsappeared alongside Bingham's favoring it, and Watterson finally retired on April 2, 1919. As publisher, Bingham set the tone for his editorial pages, and pushed for improved public education,...
Anne and Carl Braden, Courier-Journalreporters and civil rights activistsMerrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers(1980) pp 192–95Donald B. Towles (1994). The Press of Kentucky: 1787–1994. Kentucky Press Association. ASIN B0006P81OQ.John Ed Pearce (1997). Memoirs: 50 Years at the Courier-Journal and other places. Sulgrave Press. ISBN 1-891138-01-4.Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones (1991). The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty. Summit Books. ISBN 9780671631673.Gannett subsidiary profile of The Courier-Journal(archived from November 26, 2018)- Eddie Tyner
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At that time a part of Kentucky County, Virginia, the town was chartered in 1780 and named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI of France . In 2003, the city of Louisville merged with Jefferson County to become Louisville-Jefferson Metro. As of the 2010 census, it is the largest city in the state of Kentucky, the largest on the Ohio River, and ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Prior to 19th century. Childhood home of Zachary Taylor. 1773 – Captain Thomas Bullitt surveys the land. [1] 1778 – George Rogers Clark settles on Corn Island. 1778 – Fort-on-Shore constructed. 1780 – Louisville chartered. [1]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made ...
