Newspapers of Robertson County
The Cumberland Presbyterian was established in 1839,
with Rev. D. E. Harris as editor and proprietor, and ran about
two years. The Springfield Spy began in 1846. Grant & Ligon were
editors and proprietors. It ran two years.
The Robertson Backwoodsman was first published by Kirk
& McNelly in 1848. It was changed to the Springfield
Intelligencer in 1840. In February, 1852, H. H. Kirk sold
the paper to George H. McNelly, and about August. 1853, McNelly
sold to James L. Davis, who in 1854 changed the name to the
Dollar Weekly American, which was discontinued in the year
1855.
In the year 1856 a stock company bought the office, placed Mason
& Shropshire on the staff, and ran the Robertson Democrat
for four or five months, when it went under.
In 1859 Messrs. G. W. Davis & Co. started the Springfield
Spectator (Whig), which was continued until 1862, when
Morgan passed through and printed his Vidette with the material.
In a few days thereafter a Federal force came through and heaved
the type and fixtures out of a two-story window and broke the
press to atoms.
In 1866 M. V. Ingram & Co. started a little paper, the
Robertson Register, with Archie Thomas as editor and one of
the proprietors, who in a few months, however, sold his interest
to M. Y. Ingram, who ran the Register until October 23, 1868,
when he moved it to Clarksville and changed its name to the
Clarksville Tobacco Leaf. On April 16, 1869, Archie Thomas
and Richard F. Thomas established the Springfield Record
under the firm name of Thomas Brothers, and it is now in its
tenth volume. It is Democratic. The senior member of this firm
is one among the oldest of the craft in Tennessee. He entered as
an apprentice in the office of the Springfield Intelligencer
in October, 1850.
The firm of Thomas Brothers, in 1878, built a fine brick office
two stories high on Main Street. It is an ornament to the town,
being 22x60 feet. It has splendid business rooms on the first
floor.
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Source: American Historical Magazine, Volume V, No. 1, editor W.
R. Garrett, Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1900.
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