- City of Racine
- LEVI K. ALDEN, editor and proprietor of the Racine Daily
News; was born in Albany, N.Y., in
- August, 1842; moved to Janesville, Wis., in the fall of 1846;
learned the printer's trade in the Janesville Gazette
office; was through the war of the rebellion; mustered out at
Brownsville, Tex.; published the Banner at Brenham, Tex.,
for eight months in 1868-69; moved to Racine in 1874; bought
out the Son of Temperance, Jan. 1, 1878, and was proprietor of
the paper one year; started the Daily Herald, Dec. 16,
1878, and April 25, 1879, changed the name to the Racine Daily
News.
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- [Taken from "The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties,
Wisconsin" (c)1879 Western Historical Company, Chicago,
p. 565]
Courtesy of Carol
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