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{{short description|Newspaper of Titusville, Pennsylvania}}
{{Infobox newspaper
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Titusville Herald
| name = The Titusville Herald
| type = Daily Newspaper
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| founder = William Wirt Bloss and Henry Culver Bloss
| founder = William Wirt Bloss and Henry Culver Bloss
| format = Broadsheet
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| publisher = Michael Sample
| publisher = Michael Sample
| editor = Lori Drumm
| editor = Lori Drumm
| foundation = June 14, 1865
| foundation = June 14, 1865|
| ceased publication = November 5, 2022
| headquarters = 209 W. Spring Street Titusville, PA 16354
| headquarters = 209 W. Spring Street Titusville, PA 16354
| website = https://www.titusvilleherald.com/
| website = {{URL|titusvilleherald.com}}
}}
}}
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The '''''Titusville Herald''''' was a five-day morning [[daily newspaper]] published in [[Titusville, Pennsylvania]], which covers news in [[Crawford County, Pennsylvania|Crawford County]]. Founded on June 14, 1865, it was the oldest daily newspaper in the Pennsylvania Oil Region<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.titusvilleherald.com/site/about.html|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Titusville Herald|language=en}}</ref> until it ceased print on November 5, 2022.


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== History ==
= The Titusville Herald =
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The ''Titusville Morning Herald'' was founded on June 14, 1865, by brothers William and Henry Bloss. William Bloss, born in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]] on March 25, 1831, was both a newspaperman and an abolitionist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Hilburn|first=Jessica|date=2019-07-17|title=The Bloss Brothers: From the Wild West to the Titusville Herald|url=https://nwpastories.com/2019/07/17/the-bloss-brothers-from-the-wild-west-to-the-titusville-herald/|access-date=2020-06-12|website=NWPA Stories|language=en}}</ref> After serving in the [[American Civil War]], he migrated to [[Western Pennsylvania]] in search of opportunities in the burgeoning [[Petroleum industry in the United States|oil industry.]]<ref name=":0" /> William, joined by his brother Henry, purchased the ''Titusville Gazette and Oil Creek Reporter'' in 1865.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Bates|first1=Samuel P.|url=http://archive.org/details/historyofcrawfor00bate|title=History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania|last2=Brown|first2=Robert C.|last3=Mansfield|first3=John Brandt|publisher=Chicago : Warner, Beers & Co.|others=University of Pittsburgh Library System|year=1885|pages=478}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Giddens|first=Paul Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9ZGAAAAYAAJ&q=Bloss|title=The Early Petroleum Industry|date=1974|publisher=Porcupine Press|isbn=978-0-87991-325-0|pages=177|language=en}}</ref> The brothers regularly disagreed both about management of the paper<ref name=":0" /> In 1872, Henry and his partner, J. H. Cogwell, bought William's share of the newspaper.<ref name=":1" /> Henry continued to grow the paper, purchasing various other local newspapers including The ''Evening Courier'', The ''Evening Club'', The ''Evening Journal'', The ''Morning Star'', The ''Evening Press'', The ''Evening News'', and The ''Daily Courier''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSsiAQAAIAAJ&dq=Titusville+Herald+Bloss&pg=PA198|title=Rowell's American Newspaper Directory|date=1873|pages=198|language=en}}</ref>
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The ''Titusville Herald'' is a six-day morning [[daily newspaper]] published in [[Titusville, Pennsylvania]], which covers news in [[Crawford County, Pennsylvania|Crawford County]]. Founded on June 14,1865, it is the oldest daily newspaper in the Pennsylvania Oil Region.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.titusvilleherald.com/site/about.html|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Titusville Herald|language=en}}</ref>


The paper chronicled the oil industry as it developed in the wake of the discovery of petroleum in [[Oil Creek (Allegheny River tributary)|Oil Creek]] and its extraction with the establishment of [[Drake Well]] in 1859 by Colonel [[Edwin Drake]]. The ''Herald'' provided coverage of oil prices along Oil Creek<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZa3AAAAIAAJ&dq=Titusville+Herald&pg=PA83|title=The Derrick's Hand-book of Petroleum vol.2|date=1898|pages=83|language=en}}</ref> and chronicled the establishment of the [[Oil Creek Railroad]] in 1865.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Springirth|first1=Kenneth C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICVkU2QaHL0C&q=Herald|title=Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad|last2=Weber|first2=David L.|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2011|isbn=978-0-7385-7593-3|pages=7|language=en}}</ref>
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=== History ===
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The ''Titusville Morning Herald'' was founded on June, 14, 1865 by brothers William and Henry Bloss. William Bloss, born in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]] on March 25, 1831, was both a newspaperman and an abolitionist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Hilburn|first=Jessica|date=2019-07-17|title=The Bloss Brothers: From the Wild West to the Titusville Herald|url=https://nwpastories.com/2019/07/17/the-bloss-brothers-from-the-wild-west-to-the-titusville-herald/|access-date=2020-06-12|website=NWPA Stories|language=en}}</ref> After serving in the [[American Civil War]], he migrated to [[Western Pennsylvania]] in search of opportunities in the burgeoning [[Petroleum industry in the United States|oil industry.]]<ref name=":0" /> William, joined by his brother Henry, purchased the ''Titusville Gazette and Oil Creek Reporter'' in 1865.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Bates|first=Samuel P.|url=http://archive.org/details/historyofcrawfor00bate|title=History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania|last2=Brown|first2=Robert C.|last3=Mansfield|first3=John Brandt|date=|publisher=Chicago : Warner, Beers & Co.|others=University of Pittsburgh Library System|year=1885|isbn=|location=|pages=478}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book|last=Giddens|first=Paul Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9ZGAAAAYAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=Bloss&hl=en|title=The Early Petroleum Industry|date=1974|publisher=Porcupine Press|year=|isbn=978-0-87991-325-0|location=|pages=177|language=en}}</ref>The brothers regularly disagreed both about management of the paper<ref name=":0" /> In 1872, Henry and his partner, J. H. Cogwell, bought William's share of the newspaper.<ref name=":1" /> Henry continued to grow the paper, purchasing various other local newspapers including The ''Evening Courier'', The ''Evening Club'', The ''Evening Journal'', The ''Morning Star'', The ''Evening Press'', The ''Evening News'', and The ''Daily Courier''.<ref name=":0" /> <ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSsiAQAAIAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA198&dq=Titusville+Herald+Bloss&hl=en|title=Rowell's American Newspaper Directory|date=1873|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=198|language=en}}</ref>


The paper chronicled the oil industry as it developed in the wake of the discovery of petroleum in [[Oil Creek (Allegheny River tributary)|Oil Creek]] and its extraction with the establishment of [[Drake Well]] in 1859 by Colonel [[Edwin Drake]]. The ''Herald'' provided coverage of oil prices along Oil Creek<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZa3AAAAIAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA83&dq=Titusville+Herald&hl=en|title=The Derrick's Hand-book of Petroleum vol.2|date=1898|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=83|language=en}}</ref> and chronicled the establishment of the [[Oil Creek Railroad]] in 1865.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Springirth|first=Kenneth C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICVkU2QaHL0C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=Herald&hl=en|title=Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad|last2=Weber|first2=David L.|date=|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2011|isbn=978-0-7385-7593-3|location=|pages=7|language=en}}</ref>
The ''Titusville Morning Herald'' also covered social issues affecting Titusville, a town that had grown exponentially in size and population during the oil boom. The paper features stories on gangs, prostitution and arson. When a devastating fire broke out in 1866, which devastated commercial buildings downtown (though sparing the ''Herald'' offices), Henry Bloss and the other editors recommended lynching those found culpable.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hilburn|first=Jessica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1anDwAAQBAJ&dq=Titusville+Herald+prostitution&pg=PA59|title=Hidden History of Northwestern Pennsylvania|date=2019-08-05|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4671-4145-1|pages=55|language=en}}</ref>


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When Henry Bloss died in 1893, his wife Sarah ran the paper until her death in 1916.<ref name=":0" /> Their son, Joseph Bloss, took over the paper and ran it until 1921. After Joseph's tenure as editor, the ''Herald'' was sold to Edgar Taft Stevenson.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fj-52CCLeb8C&q=Titusville+Herald+Bloss|title=Editor & Publisher|date=1922|publisher=Editor & Publisher Company|pages=27|language=en}}</ref> Edgar Stevenson, called "the newspaper man's newspaper man," edited the newspaper until he died in 1956.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=June 13, 2015|title=The Titusville Herald - Sesquicentennial Edition|url=https://issuu.com/thetitusvilleherald/docs/herald_150_web|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Issuu|language=en}}</ref> The Stevenson family published the paper for the next few generations.<ref name=":0" />
The ''Titusville Morning Herald'' also covered social issues affecting Titusville, a town that had grown exponentially in size and population during the oil boom. The paper features stories on gangs, prostitution and arson. When a devastating fire broke out in 1866, which devastated commercial buildings downtown (though sparing the ''Herald'' offices), Henry Bloss and the other editors recommended lynching those found culpable.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hilburn|first=Jessica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1anDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA59&dq=Titusville+Herald+prostitution&hl=en|title=Hidden History of Northwestern Pennsylvania|date=2019-08-05|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=|isbn=978-1-4671-4145-1|location=|pages=55|language=en}}</ref>


Since 1993, Michael Sample was the publisher<ref name=":2" /> until his death on Jan. 3, 2022.<ref name=":3" /> The paper ceased and printed its last issue on November 5, 2022.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=The Titusville Herald, Crawford County's oldest newspaper, closes |url=https://news.yahoo.com/titusville-herald-crawford-countys-oldest-035900867.html |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=news.yahoo.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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When Henry Bloss died in 1893, his wife Sarah ran the paper until her death in 1916.<ref name=":0" /> Their son, Joseph Bloss, took over the paper and ran it until 1921. After Joseph's tenure as editor, the ''Herald'' was sold to Edgar Taft Stevenson.<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fj-52CCLeb8C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Titusville+Herald+Bloss&hl=en|title=Editor & Publisher|date=1922|publisher=Editor & Publisher Company|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=27|language=en}}</ref> Edgar Stevenson, called "the newspaper man's newspaper man," edited the newspaper until he died in 1956.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=June 13, 2015|title=The Titusville Herald - Sesquicentennial Edition|url=https://issuu.com/thetitusvilleherald/docs/herald_150_web|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Issuu|language=en}}</ref> The Stevenson family published the paper for the next few generations.<ref name=":0" />

Michael Sample, the current publisher, has held this role since 1993.<ref name=":2" />{{AFC submission|t||ts=20200612191732|u=Hollisdvo|ns=118|demo=}}<!-- Important, do not remove this line before article has been created. -->


== References ==
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== External Links ==
== External links ==


* [https://www.titusvilleherald.com/ ''The Titusville Herald'' website]
* [https://www.titusvilleherald.com/ ''The Titusville Herald'' website]


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Latest revision as of 23:39, 31 January 2024

The Titusville Herald
TypDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Founder(s)William Wirt Bloss and Henry Culver Bloss
PublisherMichael Sample
HerausgeberLori Drumm
GegründetJune 14, 1865
Ceased publicationNovember 5, 2022
Hauptsitz209 W. Spring Street Titusville, PA 16354
Websitetitusvilleherald.com

The Titusville Herald was a five-day morning daily newspaper published in Titusville, Pennsylvania, which covers news in Crawford County. Founded on June 14, 1865, it was the oldest daily newspaper in the Pennsylvania Oil Region[1] until it ceased print on November 5, 2022.

History

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The Titusville Morning Herald was founded on June 14, 1865, by brothers William and Henry Bloss. William Bloss, born in Rochester on March 25, 1831, was both a newspaperman and an abolitionist.[2] After serving in the American Civil War, he migrated to Western Pennsylvania in search of opportunities in the burgeoning oil industry.[2] William, joined by his brother Henry, purchased the Titusville Gazette and Oil Creek Reporter in 1865.[3][4] The brothers regularly disagreed both about management of the paper[2] In 1872, Henry and his partner, J. H. Cogwell, bought William's share of the newspaper.[3] Henry continued to grow the paper, purchasing various other local newspapers including The Evening Courier, The Evening Club, The Evening Journal, The Morning Star, The Evening Press, The Evening News, and The Daily Courier.[2][5]

The paper chronicled the oil industry as it developed in the wake of the discovery of petroleum in Oil Creek and its extraction with the establishment of Drake Well in 1859 by Colonel Edwin Drake. The Herald provided coverage of oil prices along Oil Creek[6] and chronicled the establishment of the Oil Creek Railroad in 1865.[7]

The Titusville Morning Herald also covered social issues affecting Titusville, a town that had grown exponentially in size and population during the oil boom. The paper features stories on gangs, prostitution and arson. When a devastating fire broke out in 1866, which devastated commercial buildings downtown (though sparing the Herald offices), Henry Bloss and the other editors recommended lynching those found culpable.[8]

When Henry Bloss died in 1893, his wife Sarah ran the paper until her death in 1916.[2] Their son, Joseph Bloss, took over the paper and ran it until 1921. After Joseph's tenure as editor, the Herald was sold to Edgar Taft Stevenson.[9] Edgar Stevenson, called "the newspaper man's newspaper man," edited the newspaper until he died in 1956.[10] The Stevenson family published the paper for the next few generations.[2]

Since 1993, Michael Sample was the publisher[10] until his death on Jan. 3, 2022.[11] The paper ceased and printed its last issue on November 5, 2022.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "About Us". Titusville Herald. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Hilburn, Jessica (2019-07-17). "The Bloss Brothers: From the Wild West to the Titusville Herald". NWPA Stories. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  3. ^ a b Bates, Samuel P.; Brown, Robert C.; Mansfield, John Brandt (1885). History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. University of Pittsburgh Library System. Chicago : Warner, Beers & Co. p. 478.
  4. ^ Giddens, Paul Henry (1974). The Early Petroleum Industry. Porcupine Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-87991-325-0.
  5. ^ Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. 1873. p. 198.
  6. ^ The Derrick's Hand-book of Petroleum vol.2. 1898. p. 83.
  7. ^ Springirth, Kenneth C.; Weber, David L. (2011). Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-7593-3.
  8. ^ Hilburn, Jessica (2019-08-05). Hidden History of Northwestern Pennsylvania. Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4671-4145-1.
  9. ^ Editor & Publisher. Editor & Publisher Company. 1922. p. 27.
  10. ^ a b "The Titusville Herald - Sesquicentennial Edition". Issuu. June 13, 2015. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  11. ^ a b "The Titusville Herald, Crawford County's oldest newspaper, closes". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
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