The Jeffersonian was a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays, in Jeffersontown

Jeffersontown, Kentucky

Jeffersontown is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. Before Louisville and Jefferson County were consolidated in 2003, it was the county's largest city outside of Louisville. The population was 26,633 at the 2000 census.- History :...

, Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Kentucky

As of the census of 2000, there were 693,604 people, 287,012 households, and 183,113 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 305,835 housing units at an average density of...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

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. The Jeffersonian was first published on June 13, 1907, and was last published in 1965.

Beginning

The Jeffersonian was founded by W. C. Barrickman and J.C. Alcock

Alcock later bought out Barrickman and became the sole owner of the paper.

In 1913 Alcock bought half of the old Jefferson County Bank's lot and, later in 1913, constructed a new building for The Jeffersonian.
The new Jeffersonian building contained the offices and presses for the paper, In addition to The Jeffersonian, The St Matthews Sun was also printed and distributed from this building.

Although headquartered in, and focused on, Jeffersontown, Kentucky, The Jeffersonian reported on all of Jefferson County. The Jeffersonian reported from as far away as Bullitt and Spencer counties as well.

The Jeffersonian soon had upwards of forty reporters, much of The Jeffersonian's information came from a group of ladies, from various parts of Jefferson County, who gathered it up for the paper.

Decline

The Jeffersonian went into decline when the Kentucky statutes were changed to require that legal notices were to be printed in the newspaper of each county with the largest circulation. As The Jeffersonian was not the newspaper with the largest circulation in Jefferson County it lost a lot of advertising revenue that it had previously garnered from legal notices.

Demise

In 1959 Alden J. Schansberg bought The Jeffersonian. In 1965 Schansberg merged The Jeffersonian into the St Matthews Voice.