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COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKIE. 267
possession of Mr. DAVID M. KEELER, who continued its pub-
lication until Febuary, 1845, over the store of L. J. FARWELL,
in SHEPARDSON'S wooden building, about where T~ROOP'S hat
store now stands.
KEELER issued the first daily paper published in the town,
Dec. 9th, 1844.
In February, 1845, Mr. JOHN S. FILLMORE became the pur-
chaser of the estal;lishment, and associated with him JASON
DOWNER, Esq. FILLMORE DOWNER were the publishers.
and
J. DOWNER, editor. Prom this time on, Mr. FILLMORE became
the active business man of the concern, which relation he main-
tained for ten years or more. In the fall of 1845, Mr. DOWNER
vacated the editorial chair, and gave his place to RUFUS KING,
the present able and accomplished editor. In February, 1846,
the Daily Gazette, which was established by WM. DUANE WIL-
SON in the fall of 1845, was merged nith the Sentinel, and pub-
lished from this time on until 1850 as the Sentinel & Gazette,
when the old name of Milwaukee Sentinel was again re-
sumed.
I speak now of the Wisconsin. Mr. NOONAN in the year
1841, purchased of DANIEL H. RICHARDS the Milwaukee Ad-
vertiser, and continued its publication as the organ of the Dem-
ocrats under the name of the Milwaukee Courier. His ofice
was in ROGERS' Block, just across the street from us. In
1844, Mr. NOONAN sold out to JNO. A. BROWN, who removed
the office to Wisconsin street, over the old Post-office, just above
DAVIS & MOORE'S. In 1846-47 it passed into the hands of
Messrs. CRAMER & CURTIS, and was removed about this time
to the second floor, of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insur-
ance Company's building, on the corner of Michigan and East
Water Streets. Its name was now changed from Milwaukee
Courier to The Wisconsin. It first issued a daily in the year
1847 At the end of a couple of years, more or less, its pres-
ent enterprising publisher became sole owner and editor.
The Milwaukee News was established by Luc~s SEAVER,
as a wcekly, in 1848, as a daily, in 1849, under the name of