Maryville Daily Forum

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The Maryville Daily Forum is a daily newspaper in Maryville, Missouri that is owned by GateHouse Media.

The paper traces its roots to the Nodaway Democrat published in 1869 by future Missouri Governor Albert P. Morehouse. Morehouse had in 1865 published the Maryville Gazette which was just a list of taxes due. In 1869 he launched a more ambitious newspaper.

In the early 1900s William C. Van Cleve, publisher of the Moberly Monitor-Index, merged the Democrat with the Nodaway Forum which had been established on October 24, 1901 by future Congressman Charles J. Colden and the paper was called the Maryville Democrat-Forum.^[1][2]

In 1929 Oscar S. Stauffer bought the paper and changed the name to the Maryville Daily Forum.^[3][4] Stauffer's brother Marion W. Stauffer was the paper's publisher for more than 30 years. The Forum was one of Stauffer's acquisitions in the Stauffer Communications empire that would eventually cover 11 states.

The paper's other owners have included Morris Communications (which in turn sold it to GateHouse).

References

1. ^ Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921 By Walter Barlow Stevens Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921
2. ^ http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umlib;cc=umlib;sid=114eb654026f296296576fd9db813e35;q1=Forum;rgn=full%20text;idno=umls000020;view=image;seq=218
3. ^ http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/newspapercatalog/nodawaycounty.shtml
4. ^ Missouri, Mother of the West By Walter Williams, Floyd Calvin Shoemaker Published by The American Historical Society, inc., 1930

External links

• maryvilledailyforum.com