Eastern Illinoisan

City: Marshall

County: Clark County

State: Illinois

In 1853, business partners James C. Robinson and Jacob Zimmerman purchased two Marshall newspapers—the Illinois State Democrat and the Marshall Telegraph—and created the Eastern Illinoisan, which they edited and published as a Democratic newspaper. In 1856, Silas S. Whitehead, Jr. took over the paper. He edited and published the paper until the Civil War with some assistance, briefly, from first Edward L'Hote, then H. H. Peyton. Whitehead sold the paper to Peyton in 1861, but when Peyton entered the U.S. Army in August of that year Whitehead resumed ownership and management of the paper. In 1865 he again sold the paper, this time to John Littlefield, who suspended its publication.

William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1883), 322; Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, vol. 6 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), 236; Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties (Philadelphia: J. L. McDonough, 1883), 248.