Tyrone Daily Herald


The Tyrone Daily Herald is an American daily newspaper serving Tyrone, Pennsylvania, and region – northern Blair County and nearby portions of Centre and Huntingdon Counties. The newspaper has been running for years, the latter as a daily.

History

The Tyrone Daily Herald was founded as a weekly newspaper, the Tyrone Herald, on August 15, 1867, by H.R. Holtsinger and J.L. Holmes . In 1868, Holtzinger and Holmes took on a partner, Charles Sullivan Worrell Jones, as half owner. Shortly thereafter, in 1868, Jones purchased the interests of Holtzinger and Holmes. Jones served as the editor beginning in 1868. Holtzinger was a Brethren minister who, after selling his interest in the Herald, founded a denominational paper, the Christian Family Companion.
The Daily Herald'' became a daily publication on April 16, 1887.

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