Samuel R. Overton

1807 William W. Worsley and Samuel R. Overton established the Kentucky Reporter

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The Observer and Reporter now the oldest newspaper in existence in Kentucky if not in the West was founded in 1807 by William W Worsley and Samuel R Overton and was first called the Kentucky Reporter Their first office as the early copies of the paper state was opposite Mr Sanders store and therefore occupied the site now filled by Clark & Bro s warehouse on East Main street and was between the first capitol building of the infant commonwealth of Kentucky and the Free and Easy tavern so notorious in the early history of Lexington Near it was a rakish looking craft of a building nine feet wide and forty feet long then commonly called the Old Gun boat This was the first silver plater's shop used in this city by the late David A Sayre and there the ring of his busy hammer was often heard far into the night Mr Worsley came to this place fromVirginiaatan early day and married a sister of Thomas Smith at that time editor of the Kentucky Gazette and afterward editor of the Observer Aside from his capacity as a writer and publisher Mr Worsley was noted for his strict integrity and remarkable amiability Mr Overton who was connected with the Observer only a few months and in a business way was a son of Waller Overton of this county

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