The Printer's Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family

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261 Notes introduction 1. J. M. Dixon, The Valley and the Shadow: Experiences of a Blind Ex-Editor (new York: russell Brothers, 1868), 57;Will Porter, Annals of Polk County, Iowa, and the City of Des Moines (Des Moines, iowa: George A. Miller Printing Company, 1898), 602;“Fatal Affray,” Ripley (Ohio) Bee, Dec. 3, 1863; Gerald Fowke, “The Mitchells of Charleston Bottoms, Mason County, Kentucky,” Mason County Museum Cen­ ter, Maysville, Ky., 126. 2. A composite portrait of the small­town newspaper editor and printer in nineteenth­century America has been synthesized from the following sources listed in alphabetical order: Gerald J. Baldasty, The Commercialism of News in the Nineteenth Century (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1992); David W. Bulla and GregoryA. Borchard, Journalism in the Civil War Era (newYork:Peter Lang, 2010);David Dary, Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West (newYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998); George h. Douglas, The Golden Age of the Newspaper (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999); robert s. harper, The Ohio Press in the Civil War (Columbus: Ohio state Univ. Press, n.d.); robert F. Karolevitz, Newspapering in the Old West: A Pictorial History of Journalism and Printing on the Frontier (new York: Bonanza Books, 1965), and From Quill to Computer: The Story of America’s Community Newspapers (national newspaper Foundation, 1985); Frank Luther Mott, American Journalism (newYork:MacMillan Company, 1962); David Paul nord, Communities of Journalism: A History of Newspapers and Their ChAPTer TWO } 262 } notes to pages xviii–xx Readers (Urbana: Univ. of illinois Press, 2001); Jeffrey L. Pasley, The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2001); Michael schudson, Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers (new York: Basic Books, 1978); rollo G. silver, The American Printer 1787–1825 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1967). 3. ross MacDonald of Brightwork Press in Connecticut says “the most ad­ mired impression” from an old letterpress was “the one that was the richest and the lightest, called ‘the printer’s kiss.’” Quoted in Micheal neault, “Wood Type rising,” City: Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly (June 29, 2005), www.roches­ tercitynewspaper.com/archives/2005/06/Wood­type­rising/. 4. Dary, Red Blood and Black Ink, 21–27, 195–96, and 258–59. 5. see List of newspapers edited and Published by Will Tomlinson, Appen­ dix; Porter, Annals, 602. 6. see Tomlinson’s naturalization record, Brown County Genealogy society, naturalizations, Georgetown, Ohio, Journal 13, 1844–45, 388. in the Hickory Sprout (Piketon, Ohio), Aug. 29, 1844, Tomlinson noted that the St. Lawrence Republican editors praised his former employment with them in Ogdensburg, n.Y. see St. Lawrence Republican (Ogdensburg, n.Y.), Aug. 13, 1844, northern new York Li­ brary network, northern new York historical Papers, http://news.nnyln.org; Porter, Annals, 602. 7. Hickory Sprout, Aug. 29, 1844;Loyal Scout (ripley, Ohio), Oct. 10, 1863;Freedom ’s Casket (ripley, Ohio), June 15, 1844; Will Tomlinson, letters to the editor, Ripley Bee, Jan. 14, 1862, and Apr. 10, 1862; Will Tomlinson to eliza Tomlinson, Feb. 13, 1863, and Apr. 9, 1863, Wylie­Tomlinson Letter Collection. 8. Loyal Scout, Oct. 10, 1863. 9. “William Tomlinson,” Q. M. sgt., regimental Descriptive Book, n. C. s. [noncommissioned service] and Band, Company i, 5th reg’t. Ohio infantry, Apr. 20, 1861, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.s. national Archives and records Administration, Washington, D.C.; West Virginia Union Militia rosters: Upshur County, West Virginia state Archives, West Virginia Division of Culture and history, www. wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/militia/rostersupshur.html; harper, Ohio Press in the Civil War, 6; James G. smart, ed., introduction to A Radical View: The “Agate” Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 1861–1865, (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis state Univ. Press, 1976), 1:4; Loyal Scout, Oct. 10, 1863. 10. stanley harrold, Border War:Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (Chap­ el hill: Univ. of north Carolina Press, 2010), 15–16, 72, 94–95, and 101–4. 11. The History of Brown County, Ohio (Chicago: W. h. Beers & Co., 1883), 423–24. For an explanation of ripley’s suspicious attitudes toward strangers professing to support abolitionists and the origins of the town’s nickname as an “abolitionist hellhole,” see Fergus M. Bordewich, Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, American’s First Civil Rights Movement (new York: harperCollins, 2005), 189–90 and 208–9; also, Ann hagedorn, Beyond the notes to pages xxi–xxiv } 263 River...