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s editor at that time, at the age of 19, and continued to publish the newspaper until his retirement in 1903. It was through Mahin that Alfred W. Lee came to Muscatine and later founded the newspaper group, which evolved into what now is Lee Enterprises, Inc.
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and started his newspaper career there. In 1886, Lee moved to Chicago where he continued his self-education in the newspaper business. Lee returned to Iowa to buy his first newspaper in the early 1890s, when he took charge of the
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s bookkeeper. With them came their youngest son, Alfred, to take a position in the Muscatine post office under John Mahin, who was the postmaster as well as the newspaper editor. Alfred W. Lee later joined the staff of the
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In 1919, the current building was constructed with the pressroom and mailroom added in the early 1970s. That remodeling was made to accommodate a new Goss Community offset press, and coincided with the
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In September 1864, John Mahin married Anne Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lee of West Branch. In about 1880, Mr. and Mrs. Lee moved to Muscatine and Mahin's father-in-law, John Lee, became the
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and the press area was remodeled to become the Muscatine distribution center for delivery of many regional newspapers in the Muscatine area.
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for more than a half-century. John Mahin was apprenticed by his father in 1847, at the age of 13, to the owners of what was then still the
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has had many locations throughout its history, including the second floor of what is now DC Arnold's on Iowa Avenue.
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in 1903, when John Mahin had reached the age of 70 years and was ready for retirement. Walter Lane was named as the
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The late John Mahin played the most significant role in the newspaper's early history and headed the
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was released. On June 7, 1849, the town's name was officially changed from Bloomington to
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s publisher when the Lee group assumed control and served until death, in 1907. The
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traces its history to October 27, 1840, when the first issue of the weekly
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to learn the printing trade. Mahin and his father, Jacob, purchased the
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from 1853 to 1855. Clemens lived in Muscatine in 1854, when the
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s conversion to cold type composition. In 1999, the
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Muscatine, Iowa
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