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URL title: History of Kansas Journalism and Journalists - Kansas State History
URL description: Jotham Meeker, a Baptist missionary connected with the Shawnee Indian Mission near the present site of Kansas City, established the first newspaper published in what is now Kansas. Meeker, a printer as well as a minister of the Gospel, came to Shawnee Mission early in 1833 and (according to his diary) began setting type on the first issue of the Shawnee Sun on February 18, 1835.
URL keywords: Kansas Journalism and Journalists, Jotham Meeker, William Allen White, History of the media in the state of Kansas, Kansas Newsp
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