Charles Holt bought a half interest in the Janesville Gazette and became joint editor; one passage dates this to September 1848.

The evidence

• “In December, 1848, Charles Holt bought a half interest and became joint editor, an arrangement which was continued with Blight interruption until August, 1859, when Hiram Bowen and Daniel Wilcox came in, the new firm doing business under the title of Holt, Bowen & Wilcox, It may be of interest to many”

  1908-brown-rock-county/24-janesville-press.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 535 / book p. 496

  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.

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