The Lebanon Gazette, now defunct, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Lebanon, Ohio

Lebanon, Ohio

The population at the 2010 census was 20,033. As of the census of 2000, there were 16,962 people residing in the city. The population density was 1,440.6 people per square mile . There were 6,218 housing units at an average density of 528.1 per square mile...

, both of which were absorbed by The Western Star

The Western Star

The Western Star is Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper and second oldest of any sort after the daily Chillicothe Gazette. It is published Thursdays by Cox Media Ohio Group, the communications company founded by former Ohio Governor James Middleton Cox...

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The first of the papers was initially issued on Wednesday, November 11, 1821, and it ceased publication Saturday, August 10, 1822. The Western Star was then retitled The Western Star and Lebanon Gazette.

The second paper to bear this name was established by William H. P. Denny

William H. P. Denny

William H. P. Denny was an American newspaper editor and publisher and politician in Ohio.The son of George Denny, who was a printer on the newspaper, William was apprenticed with The Western Star in Lebanon, Ohio. From circa 1830, he was a partner in the paper and later owned it outright until 1858...

, the former owner of The Western Star, in 1877. In 1879, he sold the paper to William D. Mulford and J. C. Van Harlingen. By 1882, the Gazette Printing Company, a company controlled by George M. Johnston, assumed ownership. The paper was discontinued February 16, 1893, and with The Western Stars issue of Thursday, February 23, 1893, that journal was called The Western Star and Lebanon Gazette.