Quincy Herald

City: Quincy

County: Adams

State: Illinois

The Quincy Herald was a Democratic newspaper in Quincy, Illinois. The oldest newspaper in Adams County and the third oldest in Illinois, the Quincy Herald began its life as the Bounty Land Register in April 1835. Publishers C. M. Wood and Dunbar Aldrich issued the first number on April 17, 1835, with Richard M. Young as editor. In 1836, John H. Pettit became editor and changed the name to the Quincy Argus and Bounty Land Register. Pettit dropped Bounty Land Register from the name in 1839, and the paper continued as the Quincy Argus until 1841, when it became the Quincy Herald. The publishers began a daily edition in 1850, and eventually published daily, weekly, and tri-weekly editions. Under the editorship of Austin Brooks, the Herald developed a national reputation and a large circulation.

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), 290-91; The History of Adams County, Illinois (Chicago: Murray, Williamson & Phelps, 1879), 429; William H. Collins and Cicero F. Perry, Past and Present of the City of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1905), 288.