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412 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
what Avould noAv be called coarse paper, and the advertisements and reading
matter appeared in much the same size and style of type. Under the
name of the Clarion the paper Avas continued until 1843, Avhen Mr. Campbell
issued a daily edition, which he called the Daily Sanduskian.
After continuing for some years longer the proprietor sold the entire
plant to Earl Bill and Clark Waggoner. The former of these persons
Avas aftenvard chosen clerk of the United States District Court for the
District of Northern Ohio, Avhile the latter became editor of the Toledo
Blade. Still later he Avas on the editorial staff of the Toledo Commercial,
but at a quite recent day embarked in the limitless field of history.
Messrs. Bill & Waggoner subsequently sold an interest in the paper
to Henry D. Cooke, and the firm style Avas thereupon changed to II. D.
Cooke & Co. "Upon taking formal possession of the office, this firm
dropped the old name and called the paper, in all its editions, the Commercial
Register, three editions, daily, tri-Aveekly and Aveekly, being
printed. II. D. Cooke & Co. continued the Register publications for some
twelve years, Avhen Mr. Cooke.retired to become the editor of the State
Journal, Mr. Waggoner to accept a position on the Toledo Blade, whereupon
the paper passed into the hands of Bill & Johnson.
The Commercial Register changed hands three or four times betAveen
1855 and 1869. In the last named year Isaac F. Mack purchased a half
interest, and in 1870 the other half. He dropped the first part of the
name, and since that time the paper has beeii called the Register. In
1874 John T. Mack became a part OAA'ner, and for fourteen years the paper
has been published under the firm name of I. F. Mack & Bro. In 1882 a
Sunday edition Avas started, and since that date has been published every
morning in the year. In 1869, when the present editor took charge, the
Register Avas an evening daily, but he changed it to a morning paper in
May, 1869.
The Register, from the time of its establishment to the death of that
party Avas an ardent advocate of whig principles. It became republican
in 1856, and has since remained so, being all these years the recognized
organ of that party in this county.
After the death of I. F. Mack the Register has been published by
a corporation of Avhich John T. Mack Avas the editor and business manager
to his death.
John Talman Mack, born in Rochester, NeAV York, July 26, 1846,
spent his entire business life in connection with the Sandusky Register,
part time as business manager, during the latter years of his life as
editor of the paper. He Avas the youngest of seven sons of Isaac Foster
Mack, Sr., of Rochester, NCAV York. In 1848 the Mack family moved to
Decatur, Green County, Wisconsin, AA'here his boyhood Avas spent in the
village and on the farm, his father being an extensive land owner, operating
farms in conection Avith his IHAV practice. A little later the family
moved to Brodhead, Wisconsin, Avhere the son John attended the grammar
and high schools. After graduating from the Brodhead schools, Mr.
Mack spent six months in Beloit College, entering that institution in
January, 1864. In the fall of that year he entered the preparatory