bought the Quincy Whig in 1915, with Arthur Lindsay taking up residence in Quincy as president and manager. Eaton's son John Dewitt Eaton stayed with the paper as Advertising Manager until his retirement in 1955. Hedley Eaton retired in 1913 and died in 1936. He retired as editor of the Republic in 1913 and died in 1921. Johnson in ownership of the Rockford Republic. Miller spent four years in Quincy, returning to Rockford in 1896 to join Harry M. Oakley, the first two generations of the Oakleys in the newspaper business in Quincy. Subsequently, Miller brought to the Herald his brother-in-law and nephew, respectively, Aaron Burr Oakley and Ray M. Miller had earlier founded the Rockford Daily Register, that city's oldest newspaper. Miller, Hedley John Eaton and Edmund Botsford. The Herald was purchased in September 1891 by three men from Rockford, Charles L. The two papers were combined to form a single daily paper, the Quincy Herald-Whig. The corporation was formed in Quincy on June 1, 1926, as Quincy Newspapers after the merger of the Quincy Herald, direct descendant of the Illinois Bounty Land Register first published in Quincy in 1835, and the Quincy Whig-Journal, descendant of the Quincy Whig founded in 1838. The company was owned by the Oakley and Lindsay families of Quincy. The company moved into radio in 1947 and began television broadcasts in 1953. Over the next century, a number of mergers followed. The company's history can be traced back to 1835, when the Bounty Land Register was one of four newspapers in Illinois. Quincy Media, Inc., formerly known as Quincy Newspapers, Inc., was a family-owned media company that originated in the newspapers of Quincy, Illinois.
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