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Title:
Gainesville daily sun. : (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938
Alternative Titles:
  • Daily sun
  • Sun
Place of publication:
Gainesville, Fla.
Geographic coverage:
  • Gainesville, Alachua, Florida  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
Publisher:
H.H. McCreary
Dates of publication:
190?-1938
Description:
  • -58th year (July 24, 1938).
Frequency:
Daily (except Saturday) -1938
Language:
  • English
Subjects:
  • Alachua County (Fla.)--Newspapers.
  • Gainesville (Fla.)--Newspapers.
Notes:
  • Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • Description based on: Vol. 20, no. 48 (Apr. 5, 1903).
  • Semiweekly ed.: Gainesville sun (Gainesville, Fla. : 1903), <1903-1918>.
LCCN:
sn 95026977
OCLC:
32994415
ISSN:
1941-0778
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The Daily Sun, Gainesville Daily Sun, and The Gainsville Sun

The Daily Sun was based in Gainesville, the seat of Alachua County and shipping center for Florida’s citrus region. The newspaper was formed through the merger in 1890 of the Gainesville Advocate and the Daily Morning Record .

The Daily Sun described itself as a “democratic” paper. It was published daily, except Mondays, by Henry Hamilton McCreary, the scion of a prominent southern family. After completing a degree at the University of Kentucky, McCreary established himself as a newspaper editor at the age of twenty. McCreary also rose to prominence as a politician in the Democratic Party, first as a city councilman and later as a member of the state assembly, to which he was re-elected several times. McCreary considered himself a staunch patriot and fervently supported industrialization as a means of strengthening Florida and the nation. McCreary’s wife, born Irene Richardson, was well connected in the civic networks of Gainesville and northeast Florida and served both as vice-president of the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs and president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

The Daily Sun was continued, in 1903, by the Gainesville Daily Sun which briefly carried the title of theGainesville Sun.

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