The Lincoln County Leader was a weekly American newspaper published in Toledo, Oregon from 1893 to 1987.

[2] In 1893, Stewart had moved to Toledo, Oregon from Woodburn, a town in the Willamette Valley, where he had been publishing a paper called the World, which was operating in competition with the Independent.

[3] The original printing press was small, consisting of an "army" model, which was placed upon a dry goods box.

[1] Under Stewart, the Leader supported the Democratic Party as well as the right to vote of Native Americans living on the Siletz Indian reservation.

[1] The Soules were Republicans, and often criticized William Jennings Bryan, a leading national Democrat at the time.

[8] The type for the new paper was set on a linotype machine owned by the Lincoln County Leader.

[1] Later editors of the Leader, up to 1939, included R.H. Howell and John E. Cooter, speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in the 1935 regular legislative session.

[3] A few years after the 1922 sale of the Leader to the Halls, Collins established a competing journal, the Lincoln County Herald.

[11] According to the Portland Oregonian, for nearly 35 of those years, the building had been "a meeting place for many of the county's leading politicians and newspapermen during its time, and many of statewide fame.

[13] In early November 1951, Price was summoned by the Lincoln County grand jury and questioned about his sources for articles on local vice operations of the police.

[15] In February 1967, Lee Irwin was the co-publisher of the Lincoln County Leader, as well as three other newspapers in Oregon, the Gresham Outlook, the Sandy Post, and the Newport News.

[16] In July 1974, the Lincoln County Leader was jointly owned by Walter Taylor, of Newport, and Lee Irwin, of Gresham.

[17] At that time Irwin and Taylor were also co-owners, with David Juenke, of other newspapers, including the then-recently acquired weekly Seaside Signal (circulation: 3,200) and the Tillamook Headlight Herald.