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Contrnercial Advertiser. He published it for a year or two, and
then sold to Messrs. CARY & ROUNDS. Dr. CARY of Racine
and Judge BRYAN, now of Menasha, editors. These gentlemen
continued its publioation till 1852, when it passed into the
hands of SHAW & HYER. Mr. CLASON and his associates
purchased it in 1854. IIe, I think, changed its name from
the Comntercial Advertiser to the Milwaukee News. In
January, 1856, he transferred it to Mr. SHARPSTEIN who has
since been, with Mr. LATHROP, its publisher and editor.
The establishment of the American is of so recent a date,
that its history has paesed under the observation of all. It was
transferred by its sp~rited editor and proprietor, Col. A. WELL-
INGTON HART, to the News establishment in 1857.
Our friend Boo~rr, in whose noble building we meet to-night ,
(long may it stand and bring him good rents,) would not like
it well if, in passing, we should omit a notice of the sheet he has
had something to do with, to wit : 66 The Tree Democrat."
In the year 1843, C. C. SHOLES commenced the publication
of a Democratic paper called the Milwaukee Democrat, with
the material of the Wisconsin Enquirer, the first paper pub-
lished at Madison. The Democrat was published six months;
when Mr. SHOLEB, dissatisfied with the position of the Demo-
cratic party on the slavery question, changed the political char-
acter of his paper, and adopted tho name of American Tree-
man, advocating the doctrines of the Liberty Party, which
about this time was first organized in the Territory. The
Freeman was published less than half a year in Milwaukee,
the patronage it received being insufficient for its support. A
stock company was then formed, the establishment purchased;
and as it vas at that time claimed for Waukesha, (orprairieville,)
that it was sound on the reform question, on account of this
fact or belief, it was presumed that Prairieville would become
a kind of nursing mother to the fieeman, the press was remo-
ved to that point, where, under the management of Mr. SHOLES,
it was published weekly for one year. Next Mr. CODDING as-
sumed the editorial chair.