On March 19, 1851, the first edition of The Daily Union was published. The newspaper started out in response to the Placer Times and Sacramento Transcript cutting costs in their newspaper offices which cut wages for much of the employees. Many of he typesetters, reporters, and printers unionized and left to establish their own paper, hence the name The Daily Union. Dr. John Frederick Morse was the newspaper’s first editor. The first Union building was located on J Street between Front and Second Streets. One of the most notable reporters for the Union was Mark Twain, who was hired in 1866. Twain convinced the newspaper to send him to Hawaii, where he dispatched 25 letters for eager Union readers. While having minor name changes over its lifetime, the Union was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi and ran for 143 years until the Sacramento Union ceased publication on January 14, 1994. In this video, Jared discusses the history of the Union, shows a reproduction copy of...