Butte County
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OROVILLE
REGISTER
OROVILLE REGISTER.—For upwards of forty
years the Oroville Register has been an important factor in the development and
growth of this community. Its founder was William Sharkey and the
newspaper plant was first located at Biggs, and the first issue of the paper
was on November 25, 1878, under the name of the Butte County Record. In
1880 Mr. Sharkey moved the plant to Oroville, considering this field one of the
greater opportunities. He sold his interest in the paper to Seth Sprague
Boynton in 1883, and from that time until the death of Mr. Boynton, he was in
continuous charge, and here, from 1887 until 1906, the paper earned for itself
a place of importance among the journals of Northern California. During
those nineteen years it was a most powerful factor in the development of Butte
and Plumas Counties. Mr. Boynton changed the name of the paper to the
Oroville Register. On May 31, 1895, it became a daily paper, with a weekly
edition, and still later the weekly edition was converted into a semi-weekly.
The paper was edited for two months, following the death of Mr. Boynton, in
1906, by Daniel Worthing, and in the same year was
taken charge of by the present editor, George C. Mansfield. Since then the
Oroville Register has continued its high standard in keeping pace with the
prosperity of the community. Its policy has always been constructive for
those things that are good, and destructive only to
those that are bad. The paper has always been Republican and it has
wielded a strong influence for the success of that party in Northern
California.
The plant is now managed by a corporation known as the Oroville Register
Publishing Company, of which Mrs. S. S. Boynton is president; A. E. Boynton is
vice-president; George C. Mansfield is editor; Mrs. Leila Boynton Stapleton is
secretary and treasurer; and the remaining directorate is made up of George P.
Morse; T. J. Powers is business manager.
Transcribed 1-22-08
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 638-641, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
©
2008 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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