Various sources give differing accounts over the origins of The Boston Times.
[1][2][3] University of Wisconsin historian and journalism educator Willard Grosvenor Bleyer wrote that this newspaper began publication in February 1836.
[1] This also mirrors historical accounts written by The Bostonian Society which indicate that the newspaper was publishing at this time out of a building on the south side of the Old State House.
[6][2] In 1872 the paper was purchased by a company owned by B. W. Thayer, R. C. Dunham, John M. Tuohy, J. O. Hayden, and George Williamson.
[11] In 1903 Francis [Frank] A. Russegue, a longtime employee of The Boston Times, became managing editor of the paper; a position he maintained until his death in March 1915.