# Middlebury Register

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***The Middlebury Register*** was a weekly [newspaper](/source/Newspaper) published in [Middlebury, Vermont](/source/Middlebury,_Vermont) from 1836 through 1947, one of Vermont's longest running weekly newspapers.[1][2][3]

## History

The newspaper began as a campaign paper for the [Whig Party](/source/Whig_Party_(United_States)), founded by Justus Cobb and Daniel Spooner in 1836. Cobb left soon afterward, but returned as printer and publisher from 1842 until 1859.[1] Local publisher and philanthropist [Joseph Battell](/source/Joseph_Battell) ran the newspaper from 1883-1919.[4] As Battell was a horse enthusiast, the paper contained an illustrated "Horse Department" featuring articles about [Morgan horses](/source/Morgan_horse) which were his favorite.[1] He would also frequently publish news about local automobile accidents because he didn't like cars' pollution and displacement of horses.[5]

The paper's original name was the *People's Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat*.[1] 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*.[1] 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.[1]

## References

1. ["The Middlebury register. \[volume\]"](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025667/). *Chronicling America « Library of Congress*. 2008-08-04. [ISSN 2328-1170](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2328-1170). Retrieved 2020-08-15.

1. Kirby, Chris (2013-12-05). ["Spanish Influenza as reported in the Middlebury Register - Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP)"](http://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/?p=1610). *Howe Library*. Retrieved 2020-08-15.

1. [*Vermont Year Book, Formerly Walton's Register*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Dt8GAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA243). E.P.&G.S.Walton. 1891. p. 243. Retrieved 15 August 2020.

1. Munford, David (July 13, 2020). *Middlebury*. Arcadia Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 978-1467105170.

1. ["The Life and Death of Joseph Battell"](http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/2015-news/node/491851). *Middlebury*. 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2020-08-15.

## External links

- [Middlebury Register at Library of Congress](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93063557/)

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