Ernest A. Hempstead    

ERNEST A. HEMPSTEAD, editor and proprietor of the Crawford Journal, Meadville, was born in Dimock, Susquehanna Co., Penn., about six miles south of Montrose, December 15, 1851, and for the first decade of his life resided there and in the adjoining town of Brooklyn, when he removed to Philadelphia. He received his education in the public schools of that city, entering the high school at the age of fourteen and remaining three years. He came to Meadville in 1870, entering the office of the Crawford Journal for the purpose of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the art of printing. January 1, 1873, just two weeks after he had arrived at his majority, he took editorial charge of the Journal during the absence of the

editor, L. W. Thickstun, at Harrisburg. In April following he took entire charge of the office and became the publisher of the paper. In June, 1874, in company with his father, O. G. Hempstead, of Philadelphia, he purchased the office, and in 1883 purchasing the interest of his father, he became the owner of the business, which during the ten years of his management has increased more than fourfold. Mr. Hempstead has conducted the Crawford Journal eleven years and a half, a longer time than any of his predecessors, excepting the founder, J. C. Hays. The Crawford Journal under that name was founded in 1848, and is now in its thirty-sixth volume. Mr. Hays, the founder, was the editor until 1863 or 1864. He was succeeded within two years by John D. Nichols, Bliss & Nichols, R. C. Frey, Thomas McKean, Robert Andrews and Hollister & Metcalf. In 1868 Tyler & Chalfont became the owners, and a few months later Col. C. W. Tyler purchased the interest of his partner, and conducted the business until 1872. This, in brief, is the history of the Crawford Journal and of its present owner and editor.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 745

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