Eastern Argus

The Eastern Argus was a newspaper published in Portland, Maine, United States, from 1803 to January 1921.

[1] At the time of its closure, it was the "oldest newspaper in Maine published continuously without change of name."

Among those with a business interest in the paper at that time were Don Carlos Seitz and Ernest C. Bowler.

[2] Prominent editors and journalists employed by the Eastern Argus included John Adams, Thomas Haskell and Seba Smith.

In 1803 "gentlemen of the Republican party" invited Nathaniel P. Willis, father of the journalist Nathaniel Parker Willis, to move from Boston to Portland to establish the Eastern Argus "in opposition to the Federalists.