This newspaper is owned by Osteen Publishing Co. Noah Graham Osteen's son, Hubert Graham Osteen, had worked with him as editor from 1891 to 1894 and founded The Sumter Daily Item on October 15, 1894. He later bought full ownership of the newspaper and continued to operate it until 1930, when it was consolidated into The Sumter Daily Item. Osteen bought The Sumter Watchman and consolidated it with The True Southron into The Watchman and Southron. OKLAHOMA CITY Teachers fled a state meeting in tears and stood in a hallway shaking and crying after the state superintendent Thursday. In 1874 The Sumter News name was changed to The True Southron (in this context a "southron" is a person from the Southern United States or Confederate States of America). Education video prompts outrage, tears among educators. Osteen returned to Sumter to become a partner with H.L. Osteen worked for awhile in Columbia at a printing company, and following the war, joined a newspaper in Charleston, The Carolinian. The newspaper, The Horry Dispatch, was discontinued in 1862 because of the upheaval caused by the American Civil War. After completing his apprenticeship in 1861, he moved to Conway to run a newspaper started by the owners of The Watchman, H.L. Noah Graham Osteen, the patriach of the Osteen family, spent his career in the newspaper business starting at the age of 12 when he joined The Sumter Watchman in 1855 as an apprentice. The Item was founded in 1894 by Hubert Graham Osteen and today the newspaper remains in the hands of the Osteen family. Its antecedent, the Watchman and Southron, was created by Noah. The Item, which lists itself as independent politically, serves a three-county area: Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee. The city of Sumter (not to be confused with the coastal Civil War-era fort) was named for General Thomas Sumter, the "Fighting Gamecock" of the American Revolutionary War. A morning newspaper, daily and Sunday, published in the city of Sumter, the Item has been published by five generations of the Osteen family since its founding in 1894. The Sumter Item, formerly called The Sumter Daily Item, covers local news and events in the city of Sumter and across Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties in the East Midlands of South Carolina.
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