Green Bay Intelligencer facts for kids
The Green Bay Intelligencer was a very important newspaper because it was the first one ever printed in Wisconsin! It started in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was founded by a businessman named John V. Suydam. The first newspaper issue came out on December 11, 1833.
How the Newspaper Started
In 1834, a person named Albert Gallatin Ellis joined the newspaper team. That same year, Ellis and the Green-Bay Intelligencer newspaper supported a local judge named James Duane Doty in his political campaign. A political campaign is when someone tries to get elected to a job, like a judge, and they try to get people to vote for them. Because the newspaper supported Judge Doty, some people who didn't agree with him decided to start their own newspaper to share their different ideas.
Changes and New Owners
The Green-Bay Intelligencer newspaper kept going, but it sometimes stopped printing for a while. In June 1835, Albert Gallatin Ellis teamed up with C. C. Arndt, and they formed a new business together called Ellis & Arndt. Later, in 1837, the Green-Bay Intelligencer was sold to Christopher Sholes. He decided to move the newspaper to a different town called Southport, Wisconsin. Today, Southport is known as Kenosha.
