{{short description|Newspaper published in Middlebury Vermont}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Middlebury Register | image = Middlebury Register.png | caption = Middlebury Register, April 02, 1850 | type = Weekly newspaper | format = | founded = {{Start date|1836}} | owners = | publisher = | editor = | circulation = | ceased_publication = 1947 | headquarters = | oclc = 57700887 | website = }} '''''The Middlebury Register''''' was a weekly newspaper published in Middlebury, Vermont from 1836 through 1947, one of Vermont's longest running weekly newspapers.<ref name="LOC08">{{cite web | title=The Middlebury register. &#91;volume&#93; | website=Chronicling America « Library of Congress | date=2008-08-04 | issn=2328-1170 | url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025667/ | access-date=2020-08-15}}</ref><ref name="Kirby 2013">{{cite web | last=Kirby | first=Chris | title=Spanish Influenza as reported in the Middlebury Register - Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP) | website=Howe Library | date=2013-12-05 | url=http://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/?p=1610 | access-date=2020-08-15}}</ref><ref name="walton">{{cite book |title=Vermont Year Book, Formerly Walton's Register |date=1891 |publisher=E.P.&G.S.Walton |page=243 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dt8GAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA243 |accessdate=15 August 2020}}</ref>

== History == The newspaper began as a campaign paper for the Whig Party, founded by Justus Cobb and Daniel Spooner in 1836. Cobb left soon afterward, but returned as printer and publisher from 1842 until 1859.<ref name="LOC08" /> Local publisher and philanthropist Joseph Battell ran the newspaper from 1883-1919.<ref name="mun">{{cite book |last1=Munford |first1=David |title=Middlebury |date=July 13, 2020 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1467105170 |page=96}}</ref> As Battell was a horse enthusiast, the paper contained an illustrated "Horse Department" featuring articles about Morgan horses which were his favorite.<ref name="LOC08" /> He would also frequently publish news about local automobile accidents because he didn't like cars' pollution and displacement of horses.<ref name="Middlebury 2015">{{cite web | title=The Life and Death of Joseph Battell | website=Middlebury | date=2015-02-25 | url=http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/2015-news/node/491851 | access-date=2020-08-15}}</ref>

The paper's original name was the ''People's Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat''.<ref name="LOC08" /> It underwent frequent name changes until 1850 being known by names such as ''People's Press'', ''Addison County Democrat'', ''Northern Galaxy'', ''Middlebury People's Press'', ''Middlebury Galaxy'', ''Middlebury Register'', and ''Middlebury Register and Addison County Journal''.<ref name="LOC08" /> In 1850 the newspaper changed its name to the ''Middlebury Register'' and maintained that name until the last decade of its existence when it became the ''Middlebury Register & Addison County Journal'' from 1937 to 1947.<ref name="LOC08" />

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==External links== * [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93063557/ Middlebury Register at Library of Congress]

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