Fascinating! These lists certainly enhance the facilitation of knowledge. I have learned something today. Thanks Pat for finding this. At 03:47 PM 1/6/2007, you wrote: >Regarding the New York Ledger, a Google search turned up a site with >this info: > >Description: The New York Ledger, first published by Robert Bonner >in 1855, was one of the earliest and most successful storypapers. >Storypapers, also called "six-cent weeklies," were weekly newspapers >that featured an array of serialized stories, poems, humor, fashion, and >current events intended for the entire family. These papers enjoyed >enormous circulation. By 1870, the New York Ledger claimed an audience >of 377,000 readers. With columns devoted to love, marriage, and baby >care, the Ledger catered to a predominantly female readership. Its >serialized stories focussed heavily on romance (domestic and historical) >and its illustrations included many images of women. Format: 8 pages, >with a front-page illustration (sometimes signed by the artist and/or >engraver) and additional images inside each issue. >Publisher: R. Bonner >Place of Publication: New York > >And from another site is this: > >Works by New York Ledger > >1855 The New York Ledger. The most popular weekly of its day is an >outgrowth of the Merchants Ledger, founded in 1847, purchased by Robert >Bonner in 1851, and renamed in 1855. The success of the publication was >due to Bonner's elaborate advertising and contributions from popular >writers, including E.D.E.N. Southworth and Lydia Huntley Sigourney, as >well as sophisticated works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Longfellow, >Tennyson, and Dickens. Advice columns by Henry Ward Beecher, Edward >Everett, and others were also popular. The New York Ledger became a >monthly in 1898 and ceased publication in 1903. > >cunhel wrote: > > I have received my copy of the Commemoratve Biographical Record > of Clearfield, Centre, Jefferson Counties. > > > > I found a long sought reference to my 6th great-granparents, > William and Rachel Bonner-Evans. > > > > The book states that Ellis Evans was born in Morristown, > Pennsylvania. Does anyone know where that is? > > > > They also state that Rachel Bonner was "a sister of the > grandfather of Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger." I have tried > to find a Robert Bonner and I can't find any reference at > all. Does this Bonner family sound familiar to anyone? > > > > Thanks, in advance for any help! > > > > Michele DeParasis > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message