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Latham Sholes tried building a typesetting machine, but failed. Frustrated by the lack of skilled help, editor C. This resulted in members of the Milwaukee Typographical Union leaving their jobs, but the war had already depleted their ranks to such a degree that the union later temporarily disbanded. The war also resulted in a shortage of skilled printers, so in 1863 the Sentinel began hiring and training 'female compositors' to typeset the paper, albeit in another building away from the men. Though much of the war news was copied from Chicago papers, the Sentinel did dispatch a war correspondent for over half a year.

The Sentinel prospered during the Civil War, sometimes printing five editions of the paper in a day. In 1848, the Sentinel praised the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a treaty that ended the Mexican–American War, commenting: 'Peace upon almost any terms will be joyfully welcomed by the American People. Brightman, but remained editor, covering the state legislative sessions of 1859–1861 himself. In the wake of the Panic of 1857 King sold the paper to T.D. He was also appointed head of the Milwaukee militia and sat on the University of Wisconsin's board of regents, as well as being the first superintendent of Milwaukee public schools. King himself was a delegate to Wisconsin's second constitutional convention. The Sentinel launched a German-language paper, Der Volksfreund, to bring the city's large population of German immigrants to the Whig cause. When the adopted constitution fell short of Whig expectations, the Sentinel was instrumental in encouraging its rejection by territorial voters on April 6, 1847. The paper provided thorough coverage of Wisconsin's constitutional convention, held in Madison in 1846. In June 1845 King came to Milwaukee and became the Sentinel 's editor three months later. King was a native of New York City, a graduate of West Point, a brevet lieutenant, the son of the president of Columbia College and the grandson of U.S. Weed recommended his associate editor and protégé, Rufus King. Īfter running through six editors in eight years, Fillmore sought a more stable editorial foundation and went east to confer with Thurlow Weed, editor of the Albany Evening Journal and powerful Whig political boss of New York. Lapham, a Midwestern naturalist who later helped establish the National Weather Service. Fillmore employed a succession of editors, including Jason Downer, later a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, and Increase A. Having accomplished his goal of establishing the first daily paper in the territory, Keeler retired two months later, but not before opening a public reading room of the nation's newspapers, the origin of Milwaukee's public library system. The paper finally began to prosper and establish itself as a major political force in the nascent state of Wisconsin. Keeler and Fillmore trumped his efforts by turning their Sentinel into a daily on December 9, 1844, while still publishing a weekly edition. president Millard Fillmore) and succeeded in ousting Starr, who kept publishing his own version of the Sentinel.

Keeler, who paid off the paper's creditors. Heavily in debt, he secured the partnership of David M. Starr guarded the Sentinel 's position as the sole Whig organ in Milwaukee. When Doty backed William Henry Harrison, the Sentinel endorsed Harrison for president in the 1840 election. In 1840 Reed was assaulted by individuals whom the Sentinel charged were hired by Democratic Governor Henry Dodge. Meanwhile, the establishment of the Whig party in the territory thrust the Sentinel into partisan politics. Reed continued the struggle to keep the paper ahead of its debts, often printing pleas to his advertisers and subscribers to pay their bills any way they could. On Juneau's request, O'Rourke's associate, Harrison Reed, remained to take over the Sentinel 's operations on behalf of Democratic Party politician James Duane Doty. A co-founder of Milwaukee, Solomon Juneau, provided the starting funds for editor John O'Rourke, a former office assistant at the Advertiser, to start the paper. The Milwaukee Sentinel was founded on June 27, 1837, in response to disparaging statements made about the east side of town by Byron Kilbourn's westside partisan newspaper, the Milwaukee Advertiser, during the city's ' bridge wars', a period when the two sides of town fought for dominance. In September 2006, the Journal Sentinel announced it had 'signed a five-year agreement to print the national edition of USA Today for distribution in the northern and western suburbs of Chicago and the eastern half of Wisconsin'. In early 2003, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel began printing at a new facility in West Milwaukee. It was purchased by the Gannett Company in 2016. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper and also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely read.

Milwaukee journal sentinel archives obituaries