The "Free Press" was absorbed by the "Gazette" following Fremont's defeat.

The evidence

• “"The Free Press," Free Soil, weekly. Absorbed by "Gazette" 1856. 1860. "Janesville Democrat," weekly.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/24-janesville-press.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 533 / book p. 494

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources