Various sources give differing accounts over the origins of
The Boston Times. Sources are in agreement that the paper was founded by editor George Roberts.
University of Wisconsin historian and journalism educator Willard Grosvenor Bleyer wrote that this newspaper began publication in February 1836. Likewise, historian
Alexander Saxton stated that
The Boston Times, then known as
Boston Daily Times, was "put into mass circulation in 1836". By the late 1830s, the
Boston Daily Times had reached a circulation of 20,000. Frank T. Robinson was managing editor of
The Boston Times from 1879 to 1883. Hiram Irving Dillenback became assistant editor of the paper in October 1882. Dillenback and the paper's business manager, Edward C. Davis, purchased the paper in January 1883 at which point Dillenback became managing editor of the paper. In 1885 the paper was purchased by D.S. Knowlton at which point it was published with Knowlton as managing editor as a weekly newspaper known as the
Boston Sunday Times. In 1898 the paper was purchased by Elmer C. Rice who became managing-editor. In 1903 Francis [Frank] A. Russegue, a longtime employee of
The Boston Times, became managing editor of the paper; a position he maintained until his death in March 1915. J. W. Denehy Jr. succeed Russegue as editor of the paper; a position he maintained until the paper ceased publication in 1933. The newspaper archives have been preserved by the
Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/item/sn91058061. An unrelated newspaper with the same name was established ca. 2021, although its own website claims without evidence, that the paper was re-created in 1972. Subsequently, Boston Times became a platform for disseminating
conspiracy theories by
John Mark Dougan as well as by
Russian disinformation campaigns. ==References==