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- Notes Potter Enterprise branch Leader Dispatch branch
- Newspaper serving Coudersport, Pennsylvania. Weekly. Circ [https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/38/5743/16858 mondo]
Complex history of mergers Notes Potter Enterprise branch - Founded by knox and thompson and others in 1875[1]
- Knox had mad money in railroads and lumber news
- 24 stockholders, residents of county holding 151 shares [https://books.google.com/books?id=k9AwAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&pg=PA1021#v=onepage&q=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&f=false books]
- in 1880 W.W. Thompson became sole owner
- Purchased by David Butterworth in December 1886 [https://books.google.com/books?id=k9AwAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&pg=PA1145#v=onepage&q=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&f=false books] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=k9AwAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&pg=PA1021#v=onepage&q=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&f=false books]
- Had previously published potter county journal for nine years [https://books.google.com/books?id=k9AwAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&pg=PA1145#v=onepage&q=%22Potter%20enterprise%22&f=false books]
- Confusing ownership but Butterworth in full control by 1890
- Butterworth dies suddenly in 1901 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22315366/the_late_mr_dw_butterworth/ news]
- His son sells it to M. J. Ostrander later in 1901 who makes it a strict republican paper [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22315449/kent_butterworth_sells_potter_enterprise/ news]
- MT Stokes arrives in 1903 (??) [2]
- another person gets half interest in 1909 and made managing editor
- MT Stokes has Abrasive style
- Makes many enemies, is kicked down by a bank president, horsewhipped by a woman, paddled by a printer [3]
- Newspaper office is dynamited by "political antagonists" [4]
- But left the paper as biggest in county [5]
- Runs as Washington Party candidate in 1914, labelled a joke [6]
- Accused of "blackguardism" by Bradford Era [7]
- In 1920 owners of rival paper the Democrat and other pub the Hammer buy the paper.[8]
- A.A. Bernard and William Fish are buyers
- Bought it from A.J. Stokes who it is claimed had made many enemies and provoked many libel suits [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22315655/potter_enterprise_sold/ news]
- Bill Fish, Jr. -- son of the elder Fish, becomes co-owner in 1957 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22316754/check_those_deer_haunts/ news]
- Had worked at paper since he was young, only taking time out to serve in the air force in WWII [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22317377/william_delos_fish/ news]
- bought it along with his wife jill news
- After her husband's death she was publisher until 1983 sale
- Bill died in 1977, of cancer, at age of 57 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22317377/william_delos_fish/ news]
- Stauffer Media buys the paper in 1983 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22316864/potter_enterprise_to_be_sold/ news]
- After the purchase, the grandson of Bill Fish senior -- Heimel -- is appointed editor
- Leaves in 1986 to work at Potter County Leader
- Leader publishing buys it in 1987 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22316864/potter_enterprise_to_be_sold/ news]
- When did Community Media Group buy? Sometime before 2013...
- Broke news in 2010 on Aldelphia [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22317570/adelphias_woes_raise_anxieties_in_town/ news]
- won 2018 award web
Leader Dispatch branch - Started in 1894 by Ralph Lord and James B. Turner and was known as The Paragraph. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22314111/many_changes_in_galeton_during_year/ news]
- sold to the Galeton Publishing Co
- Became the galeton dispatch [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081058/ loc]
- a semi weekly [https://books.google.com/books?id=EE0CAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Galeton%20dispatch%22&pg=PA1269#v=onepage&q=%22Galeton%20dispatch%22&f=false books]
- Meanwhile Effe Beever started Leader in 1903
- Combined in March 1903 with the Leader [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22313169/galeton_printing_company/ news]
- New name leader dispatch [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22313921/brief_mention/ news]
- Composed of J B. Coulston N. S. Coulston and J. B. Stone [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22313169/galeton_printing_company/ news]
- Mrs Effe Beaver named editor (early for female editor?) [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22313169/galeton_printing_company/ news]
- Republican weekly published on Thursday [https://books.google.com/books?id=U8A-AQAAMAAJ&dq=leader%20dispatch%20galeton&pg=PA947#v=onepage&q=leader%20dispatch%20galeton&f=false books]
- Leader Dispatch a victim of 1915 Galeton fire [https://books.google.com/books?id=J60fAQAAMAAJ&dq=leader%20dispatch%20galeton&pg=PA208#v=onepage&q=leader%20dispatch%20galeton&f=false books]
- About $10,000 damage, one of first victims of fire, no one hurt [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22313809/fire_fiend_strikes/ news]
- After Effe Beever, the paper was owned by Marcus J. Handwerk, Charles F. Rugaber and Walter Schwarzenbach. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22314111/many_changes_in_galeton_during_year/ news]
- Sold to Michael Cresseto in 1941 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22314111/many_changes_in_galeton_during_year/ news]
- Paper sold in 1956 to the Wellsboro Agitator, and moved printing to Wellsboro, the first time since 1894 that the Galeton hadn't had a paper
- Sold to Potter Enterprise in November 1958 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22314773/seen_from_our_window/ news]
- Cited reason was it was beyond capacity of the current publisher, who wanted more focus [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22314876/galeton_paper_sold_to_potter_county/ news]
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