In 1882, John H. Marion founded the
Prescott Morning Courier. Marion died suddenly in 1891. J. Ralph Dillon and E.A. Rogers bought the paper a few months later. Dillion retied in 1896 and sold his half-interest to Rogers. In 1920, Rogers sold the paper to attorneys A.H. Favour and Howard W. Cornick, who expanded it into an afternoon daily called the
Prescott Evening Courier. In 1922, editor W.P. "Bill" Stuart became the paper's sole owner. Stuart published the paper for the next three decades. In 1958, he sold the
Courier to a new corporation operated by Donald N. Soldwedel and the other owners of the
Yuma Daily Sun. In 1978, a holding company called
Western News & Info was established and Soldwedel was named president. The Soldwedel family owned all the stock. ==References==