The Pontiac Gazette, On the 1st of January, 1843, J. Dowd Coleman issued the first number of the Genesee Herald, at Flint, Mich. and continued to publish the same at the point as a Whig paper, until January, 1844, when the Herald ceased to exist and Coleman brought his material to Pontiac, and on Wednesday, the 7th of Febuary that year, he issued the first number of the Oakland County Gazette, upholding the same political sentiments. On the 1st of March following, W. G. Thompson succeeded to the paper and continued its publication for some years, and was for a time followed by J. B. Seymour. But Mr. Thompson came into possession of the paper again April 1, 1850.

In January, 1854, Z. B. Knight became the proprietor of the Gazette and changed its name to the Pontiac Gazette. The following year he disposed of the office to Messes. Howell & Hosmer, the latter, however, retiring in June the same year. Charles B. Howell became associated in the ownership and editorial management of the paper in 1861 and in 1863, the Howells were succeeded my Messrs. Beardslee and Turner, who found the establishment very much crippled by bad management. Mr. Beardlsee retired in 1867 and Mr. Rann took his place until the following year, when Mt. Thomblinson tried his hand at the paper, but soon retired, leaving Mr. Turner sole proprietor and manager. Mr. Rann again came upon the scene and continued there until 1872, when the present proprietors, C. F. Kimball and C. B. Turner, under the name and style of the Pontiac Gazette Company, became the owners of the office. When Mr. Turner first became identified with the paper in 1863, he found that it had been conducted by nonprofessional printers and was scarcely worth the name of a newspaper. The new firm at once began to build up the business, moving to new quarters and adding improvements as fast as the demand came, and in 1874 they placed steam power in the office.

The Gazette is now printed on a first class Potter cylinderpress and has eight pages of seven columns each. Its mechanical appearance is neat and clean and its advertising columns well filled and displayed. The job office is second to none in the state outside of Detroit and its impress facilitied are equal to those of the city. It is the largest paper in this Congressional District. Mr. Kimball's labors in behalf of the Republician cause have been acknowledged by his appointment to the Postmastership of Pontiac. The politics of the Gazette have been first Whig and then Republician, without variablencess or shadow of turning. It is a high toned in its editorials and radical in the defense f what its editors deem right.