TheSalem Observer (1823–1919) was a weekly newspaper published inSalem, Massachusetts. Among the editors: J.D.H. Gauss,[1] Benj. Lynde Oliver, Gilbert L. Streeter, Joseph Gilbert Waters.[2] Contributors included Wilson Flagg, Stephen B. Ives Jr., Edwin Jocelyn, E.M. Stone, Solomon S. Whipple.[2] Publishers included Francis A. Fielden, Stephen B. Ives, William Ives, George W. Pease, Horace S. Traill.[3][4] In the 1880s Elmira S. Cleaveland and Hattie E. Dennis worked ascompositors.[3] Its office was located in "'Messrs P. & A. Chase's ... brick building in Washington Street'" (1826–1832) and the Stearns Building (1832–1882). "In 1882 the proprietors erected the Observer Building, of three stories, of brick, in Kinsman Place next to theCity Hall."[5] As of the 1870s, one critic noted that although "theObserver is supposed to be neutral in politics, ... it has always shown unmistakable signs of a strong republican tendency."[6]
^Edwin M. Bacon, Richard Herndon, ed. (1896),Men of progress: one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: New England Magazine,OL7183032M
^abGilbert Lewis Streeter (1856),An account of the newspapers and other periodicals published in Salem from 1768 to 1856, Salem: W. Ives and G.W. Pease, printers,OL22843162M
