The Salem Observer (1823-1919) was a weekly newspaper published in Salem, 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 as compositors.[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 the City Hall."[5] As of the 1870s, one critic noted that although "the Observer 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