TheTyrone Daily Herald is an American daily newspaper servingTyrone, Pennsylvania, and region – northernBlair County and nearby portions ofCentre andHuntingdon Counties. The newspaper has been running for one hundred and fifty-eight years, the latter one hundred and thirty-eight as a daily.
TheTyrone Daily Herald was founded as a weekly newspaper, theTyrone Herald, on August 15, 1867, byH.R. Holtsinger (alternatively spelled Holtzinger and Holsinger;néHenry Ritz Holsinger; 1833–1905) and J.L. Holmes(né Jonathan Lorenzo Holmes; 1823–1894). In 1868, Holtzinger and Holmes took on a partner, Charles Sullivan Worrell Jones (1842–1905),[2] as half owner. Shortly thereafter, in 1868, Jones purchased the interests ofHoltzinger and Holmes.[3] Jones served as the editor beginning in 1868.[4][5][6][7]Holtzinger was aBrethren minister who, after selling his interest in theHerald, founded a denominational paper, theChristian Family Companion.
The Daily Herald became a daily publication on April 16, 1887.
Selected holding companies, publishers, managers, and editors
1871–1872: Brainerd & Jones – W.H.H. Brainerd (né William Henry Harrison Brainerd; 1841–1880)[8] was an owner with C.S.W. Jones from 1871 to 1872
1873–1905: C.S.W. Jones Co.
1962: Tyrone Herald Company
19??–1986: John C. Chamberlain(né John Calvin Chamberlain, Sr.; 1912–1991) and Nannie M. Chamberlain(née Nannie Rebecca Miles; 1911–1994), and wife of John C. Chamberlain and sister of Philip Kephart Miles, Jr. (1914–1985)
1986–1989: Offset News, Inc., was founded by Phil Miles in 1969. On November 4, 1986, Christophe Philip Miles, Phil's grandson, purchased Offset News and the 50% interest in theTyrone Daily Herald owned by John C. Chamberlain. And, at that time, he assumed the role of President of Offset News. Offset News had, since 1969, been printingThe Daily News ofHuntingdon. Offset News, Inc., sold its interest in theTyrone Daily Herald to The Joseph F. Biddle Publishing Company, effective March 1, 1989.
1989–1991: The Joseph F. Biddle Publishing Company, based inHuntingdon, Pennsylvania, was incorporated in 1935, and became publisher ofThe Daily News ofHuntingdon, which was first published on February 1, 1922, byJoseph Franklin Biddle (1871–1936).[9] Joseph's son, John Hunter Biddle (1905–1977), was editor ofThe Daily News from 1927 to 1936. When Joseph F. Biddle died in 1936, John took over as President of the holding company.[10] One of Joseph's grandsons,El McMeen (born 1947) is a notable steel stringfingerstyle guitarist.
As of 2017, George Raymond Sample III (born 1952), is listed as President. The Biddle family – namely two sons ofJoseph Franklin Biddle, publishers John Hunter Biddle (1905–1977) and successor Joseph Franklin Biddle II (born 1936) – publishedThe Daily News ofHuntingdon, Pennsylvania, until October 21, 1991, when it was purchased by Sample News Group, LLC, headed by George R. Sample III and his wife, Marlene Sample(née Marlene Sue Kane; born 1952).
1871–1872: Brainerd & Jones – W.H.H. Brainerd(né William Henry Harrison Brainerd; 1841–1880)[8] was an owner with C.S.W. Jones from 1871 to 1872
1873–1905: C.S.W. Jones
1905–1924: Claude Jones (1865–1924). Claude's father, David Mattern Jones (1838–1877) was a brother of Charles Sullivan Worrell Jones
1924-1952: Benjamin Charles Jones (US Army,Brigadier General, Retired; 1896–1974). He was the great-nephew of Charles Sullivan Worrell Jones, and was the son of Claude Jones. Following the death of his father, he and his sister, Mary Elizabeth Jones (1898–1991), married in 1932 to Charles Lintgen, MD (1894–1987), agynecologist based inPhiladelphia.
1962: Paul M. Kienzle (1894–1972), John Calvin Chamberlain (1912–1991), and Philip Kephart Miles, Jr. (1914–1985), acquired the newspaper from B.C. Jones and sister, Elizabeth Lintgen in 1963 and, together, ran it until Kienzle died in 1972. Then Chamberlain and Miles ran it until November 4, 1986, when Offset News, Inc., acquired the 50% interest owned by Chamberlain.
1962: W. Paul Price(né William Paul Price; 1918–1984) had worked in various roles at the newspaper from about 1950 until his retirement in 1980. He started as Sport Editor.
^"Capt. Charles S. W. Jones,"Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania, Samuel T. Wiley & W. Scott Garner (eds.), Gresham Publishing Company (1892), pps. 499–501
