PORT BYRON MESSENGER

Some time in 1857, John H. Shipman, a civil engineer of the Warsaw & Rockford Railroad project, undertook to establish a newspaper at Port Byron. Fleming & Inipey, across the river in LeClaire, were publishing a small weekly sheet, and Shipman furnished local matter for this side o/ the river, and, with a change of name to Port Byron Messenger and dating it at Port Byron, produced a paper which was printed at LeClaire and was mainly the same as the LeClaire paper.

It had no political opinions. Shipman closed. his business and left Port Byron pome time in 1858. He was born at Andover , Mass. , in 1826, went to New York city with his father's family in 1832 and was educated in the public schools there. He be­ came a civil engineer, and at 21 years of age, after he left Port Byron, he returned to New York , and at the close of 1860 obtained a position on the Sun, where he served as night editor until the winter of 1868. In 1869 he was appointed on the editorial staff of the New York World.

 

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