Adams County, Iowa
News & Newspapers

Digitized Newspapers

Serving as daily (or weekly) diaries of local communities and their inhabitants, newspapers are excellent sources of family history. They provide a wonderful, resource for genealogists, providing accounts of events not recorded elsewhere. Newspapers not only provide the expected birth announcements and obituaries, but also announcements of anniversaries, legal notices, letters to the editor, and social columns filled with local news of a more personal nature.

Adams county has had several newspapers throughout the years. Some of these are available on microfilm at the State Historical Society.

Listed below are known newspapers published at one time in Adams county.

• Corning
• Adams County Gazette
• 1867 - 1904? weekly newspaper
• title varies: Gazette
• published in Quincy, 1867 - 1869
• published in Corning, 1869 - 1904


• Adams County Free Press
• Feb. 1893 Happenings


• Adams County Union
• 1874 - 1898. weekly
• merged with Republican to become Adams County Union-Republican
• continues: True Union


• Adams County Union
• Republican 1898 - 1929. weekly
• formed by merger of Republican and Adams County Union
• absorbed by: Adams county free press


• Corning Sentinel
• 1858 or 1859


• The Colored Advance
• August 1, 1882 - ? semi-monthly
• ethnic black


• Courant
• 1877 - 1879? weekly
• minor political party
• Greenback
Archived Newspapers on IAGenWeb, Iowa Old Press