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The Benson Signal Archive

  • Benson, Arizona
  • 19151920

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Founded in 1880 as a hub for the Southern Pacific Railroad, Benson, Arizona, is located in Cochise County in the San Pedro Valley in Southeastern Arizona. The Benson Breeze first appeared in 1899 as a weekly independent newspaper published by M.K. Sipe. A year later, Allen T. Bird, publisher of The Oasis in Nogales, Arizona, took over, making it a Republican paper under the name the Benson Press. The paper changed hands several times over the next fifteen years – from Bird to W.H. Schardin to W.P. White and back to Sipe – before becoming the independent Benson Signal in 1915. Perry A. Burke was editor and publisher, and until early 1916, the masthead of the Signal reminded readers that it was "Formerly the Benson Press."

Archive Info

  • 1,418
  • Benson, Arizona
  • 19151920

Source Information

The Benson Signal, 1915–1920 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: December 15, 2022

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Archive Info

  • 1,418
  • Benson, Arizona
  • 19151920

Source Information

The Benson Signal, 1915–1920 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: December 15, 2022