[or-roots] Daniel Ryan - Josephine Co. obit

[Sue Steward]

The newspaper in Grants Pass is the Grants Pass Courier.  They have been publishing since 1885 so this might be an option to have someone there do research for you.  Since you know the date of the incident, the cost for research might not be too great.

ARCHIVE SEARCH is available through the newsroom library. There is a charge of $20.00 per hour for the service, plus .50 for each 8-1/2"x 11" photo copy. Copies are from microfilm. Contact the library by e-mail at librarian at thedailycourier.com.

FYI
April 3, 1935 (Golden Anniversary edition) at that time called Grants Pass Courier. The item was written by Amos Voorhies who was the owner of the publication


COURIER HAD SIX OWNERS SIX YEARS

Newspapers in the early day of Grants Pass had a precarious existence.

The first newspaper to be published in the town was the Argus, a four page sheet, pages 6x8 inches, and printed one page at a time on a small hand press. Its first issue was dated March 13, 1885. Dr. Keeler Gabbert was its publisher and he was able to issue it at irregular intervals or several months.

The first issue of the Grant's Pass Courier (the apostrophe was then used in the name of  the city) appeared only three weeks after the Argus was started, and was dated April 3, 1885. J.H. Stine was its founder and he continued publication until June 4, 1886, when J.W. Wimer's name appeared as a partner of Stine under the firm name of Wimer and Stine, which partnership continued for one month, until July 2,

Mr. Wimer changed the name of the paper to the Rogue River Courier.

Mr Stine had started a half dozen or more country newspapers in various parts of the state. He was shot and instantly killed near McMinnville while on a spree, some years previous to 1898.

The Courier had no less than six owners and publishers in the first six years of its existence. The sixth owner published it for seven years.

The Courier publishers have been:

       1885    J.H. Stine
      1886    W.J. Wimer
      1887    A.a. Allworth & Co.
     1888    Frank T. Sheppard
       1889    George H. Currey
        1890    Jerry Nunan
     1897    Price & Voorhies
        1899    Amos E. Voorhies*  --- to date
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  *This has been a family owned newspaper since 1899.

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  From: CARROLLOUC at aol.com 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:40 AM
  Subject: [or-roots] Daniel Ryan - Josephine Co. obit


  I am looking for an obit or write up on the death of Daniel Ryan - my grandfather's uncle.

  I received the following from a lady in Baker City and would like to follow up on it:

    The Weekly Bedrock Democrat
    Monday, June 1, 1896
    page 6
    Baker Co. Library microfilm collection, reel # 312

    Died at Grants Pass

    The intelligence has been received here of the death of Daniel Ryan, a former resident of Baker City, whose demise occurred a few days ago at the town of Grant's Pass, Southern Oregon. Mr. Ryan at one time owned some suburban property here.


  Daniel died 21, May 1896. The story my grandfather told what that Daniel had been set upon by thieves and murders while hauling freight. However, he said it happened in Baker Co. This is apparently wrong according to the above excerpt,

  I would appreciate help from anyone having access to old newspapers files in Grants Pass that could look this up. I live in Medford but can no longer drive to Grants Pass or I would come over and do the research myself.

  Thank you
  Carroll (Cooper) Summers
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