Fifty Years In The Northwest / With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

by William H. C. Folsom

Real Estate Review, monthly, C. H. Dubois & Co., established 1883.

Temperance Educator, monthly, L. Bigby, established 1882.

To-Day (Evangelical), Geo. F. Wells, A. S. Edwards, established 1880.

Wood and Iron, monthly, Wood and Iron Publishing Company, established 1880.

Methodist Herald, weekly, R. H. Young, established 1887.

EXCELSIOR.

Minnetonka Mirror, weekly, W. H. Mitchell, established 1885.

Northwestern Tourist, weekly, A. S. Dimond & Son, established 1876.

WASHINGTON COUNTY.

The first newspaper published in Washington county was the St. Croix Union, established Oct. 8, 1854, in Stillwater. It was continued under the management of Cable & Easton one year, when F. S. Cable sold out to Milton H. Abbott. Soon after Mr. Abbott bought out the interest of M. S. Easton. The paper went down in the crash of 1857.