Genesee Country Express

The Genesee Country Express was created in 1931 by the merging of the Dansville Advertiser and the Dansville Express.{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89071026/|title=The Dansville Express and Advertiser|author=National Endowment for the Humanities|access-date=2019-02-22}} The Dansville Advertiser had been started in 1860 by A.O. Bunnell;{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28743036/dansville_advertiser_is_now_no_more/|title=Dansville Advertiser is now no more|date=1915-12-11|work=Star-Gazette|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=10}} the Dansville Express was started in 1865 by F.J. Robbins.{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030923/|title=The Dansville Express|author=National Endowment for the Humanities|access-date=2019-02-22}}{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030942/|title=The Dansville Advertiser|author=National Endowment for the Humanities|access-date=2019-02-22}} The Dansville Advertiser stopped publishing in 1915, when Bunnell decided to close paper. It was re-started 10 years later, in 1925, by Ernest Quick.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28743311/dansville_advertiser_resurrected/|title=Dansville Advertiser resurrected|date=1925-01-22|work=Springville Journal|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=7}} Quick purchased the Dansville Express from Oscar and Edwin Woodruff.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28743591/quick_purchases_dansville_express/|title=Quick purchases Dansville Express|date=1943-08-25|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=24}}

By 1925, Quick was editing and publishing both the Dansville Express and Dansville Advertiser. He merged the two papers in 1931 to form the Genesee Country Express and Advertiser.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/136323029/?terms=Genesee+country+express|date=27 Oct 1943|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2018-10-11|page=29|language=en|title=Democrat and Chronicle 27 Oct 1943, page Page 29 }}

After Quick's death in 1943, Edmund J Kessler and Burndette C. Clarke of Arcade purchased the paper.

In 1951 Orville Allen, a former President of NY State Press Association, bought the Genesee Country Express. From 1951-1968 Allen was both the Publisher of the Express and the President of the NY State Press Organization. During his tenure as owner/publisher, Allen consolidated the Express with the Dansville Breeze, which had been founded in 1883.{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042493/|title=Dansville Breeze|author=National Endowment for the Humanities|access-date=2019-02-23}} At that time, both papers continued to publish separate papers, but with shared mechanical and business operations.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28744305/2_dansville_newspapers_merge_both_to/|title=2 Dansville Newspapers Merge; Both to Publish|date=1954-10-01|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=50}} Allen also acquired the Wayland Register.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28744647/orville_h_allen_editor_publisher/|title=Orville H. Allen; editor, publisher|date=1993-02-12|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=19}}{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86034922/|title=The Wayland register.|access-date=2018-10-11}} In 1957, Allen's newspaper offices and printing facilities were damaged when a fire swept through the second floor of the building.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28744835/newspaper_office_swept_by_50000_blaze/|title=Newspaper office swept by $50,000 blaze in Dansville|date=1957-02-26|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=5}}

Orville Allen sold his papers in 1967.{{Cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/syracuse-post-standard-feb-13-1993-p-76/|title=Syracuse Post Standard, February 13, 1993, p. 76|date=1993-02-13|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en}} They were purchased by W.H. Greenhow Company, publisher of the Hornell Evening Tribune.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28744892/weeklies_sold/|title=Weeklies sold|date=1967-12-30|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=4}} W.H. Greenhow Co. was purchased by Freedom Newspapers Inc. of Santa Clara, California, in 1977.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28744974/newark_paper_sold/|title=Newark paper sold|date=1977-05-20|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=42}}

George "Doc" Abraham began writing a column in the Genesee Country Express called The Green Thumb in 1947.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28745321/green_thumber_wins_award/|title=Green Thumb'er wins award|date=1973-07-26|work=The Pocono Record|access-date=2019-02-23|pages=7}} The column gained popularity and was syndicated to 135 newspapers in the United States and Canada. Doc Abraham and his wife Katy won numerous awards for their contributions, including an award for being America's leading horticultural journalist in 1967.

New York Press Association Award

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