[3] The Daily Republic was the first newspaper in the nation to editorially support Abraham Lincoln for president.
[3] Within the first year he owned the newspaper, Dean McNaughton increased the publication to five days a week, Monday through Friday, and renamed it the Daily Republic.
[5] The Daily Republic had many owners through the beginning of the 20th century until 1919, when David A. Weir bought the newspaper.
[6] After working at The Denver Post and the Chicago Tribune, he published papers in Nebraska, Oregon and Porterville before buying the Solano Republican.
Weir was also instrumental in establishing the local Lions Club, American Legion post 208 and the county's mosquito abatement district.
Since the early 1960s, the newspaper has been owned by the McNaughtons, a family with roots in journalism that date back to the 1920s.
A few years later, he returned to his home state of Indiana to purchase a small paper in Bicknel.
In addition to the Daily Republic, the family publishes The Davis Enterprise, the Mountain Democrat, the Winters Express in El Dorado Hills, Village Life in Cameron Park & Folsom, and the Georgetown Gazette in Georgetown, California.