Snyder, who already owned the Norwalk Evening Herald. Lucy Preston's husband, Frederick Wickham, took over editorship of the paper, and it stayed in the family until a century ago. The newspaper office moved out of the house when both the paper and the growing Wickham family needed more room. It suddenly occurred to him that “Reflector” would be a good name, on the premise that the paper would “reflect” the news. It is a family story that Samuel Preston was in the taproom of Obadiah Jenney's Mansion House hotel (where the Chamber of Commerce is now) and noticed a reflector lamp or candle holder on the wall. A year or so into the venture, the editor announced that the paper being used was “homemade” in Norwalk by the Norwalk Manufacturing Company.īefore the first Reflector was ever issued, Preston and Buckingham pondered over an appropriate name. There are marks in the flooring said to have been made by the Stanbury press used in the earliest time. It was planned that the Prestons and Wickhams would occupy the first floor and basement, with the newspaper office on the second floor. This building was completed and occupied in 1836, and since being moved in 1954, houses the museum of the Firelands Historical Society. (next to the present public library), and in the summer of 1835 began building a building there.
Samuel Preston's daughter, Lucy, married Frederick Wickham in January 1835. The first Reflector office was in the second story of a mercantile building at 9 W.
The Firelands Historical Society preserves an original file, which has also been microfilmed and is available at the public library. The latter gentleman had been a co-owner of Norwalk's very first newspaper, the Reporter. Owners of the new project were Samuel Preston and George Buckingham.
has available the paper's run through 1863. The Huron Reflector issued its first edition on Feb. The Norwalk Reflector's first home, then located on West Main Street, now serves as the home of the Firelands Museum, now on Case Avenue.
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