[110] Quoted from Wendell J. Ashton, Voice in the West, Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper (New York, 1950), p. 367, note 17. This book is about Utah's first newspaper, the Deseret News, established June 15, 1850, of which the earliest original issue in the Library of Congress is dated May 31, 1851.
[111] It is now available again at the Church Historian's Office. Another copy is in the Harvard Law Library.
[112] See Franklin L. West, Life of Franklin D. Richards (Salt Lake City [1924]).
[Minnesota]
(Minnesota Chronicle and Register St. Paul, Minnesota Territory, Saturday, August 25, 1819. Vol. 1 No. 1)
Minnesota's first printer was James Madison Goodhue of Hebron, N.H. An Amherst College graduate, he had abandoned a legal career to run a pioneer newspaper at Lancaster, Wis. Shortly after the establishment of the Minnesota Territory, he moved his printing equipment to St. Paul, and on April 28, 1849, he founded his weekly newspaper, The Minnesota Pioneer. It is reported that even though he brought along two printers, Goodhue himself worked both as compositor and pressman, and further that the printing press he used at Lancaster and St. Paul was the same on which Iowa's first printing had been performed.[113] The Library of Congress' scattered file of this first Minnesota newspaper contains just one 1849 issue, dated October 25.
Taking precedence as the Library's earliest example of Minnesota printing is the first issue, dated August 25, 1849, of another St. Paul paper, the Minnesota Chronicle and Register, which resulted from the merger of two early rivals of the Pioneer. In an introductory editorial the proprietors, James Hughes and John Phillips Owens, make certain claims on behalf of this paper: