From History of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - 1881, Volume 1, Page 613

D. H. RICAHRDS, one of the founders of the Milwaukee Advertiser, was born February 12, 1808, in Burlington, Otsego County, N.Y.  At the age of 16 he went to Canada and learned the printer's trade.  He was married in 1834 to Miss Eliza Ann DANA.  In the Spring of 1835 he opened a store of general merchandise near Peoria, Ill.  During the same year he came to Chicago, and, in 1836, he established the Advertiser, as it noticed in the sketch of that paper.  Mr. RICHARDS had intended to buy the Chicago Democrat, but became prepossessed with the advantages of this city as a newspaper point.  A journey to New York City, occupying eighteen days, to purchase materials, became necessary, and on the 14th of July succeeding the first number of the Advertiser appeared.  Mr. RICHARDS made an arrangement with Col. Hans CROCKER, who, for some months, was its sole editor, while its business management and the mechanical work devolved upon the former.  In 1841 Josiah A. NOONAN purchased the establishment.

From the time of his arrival in Milwaukee until the war, Mr. RICHARDS was much interested in the public enterprises which most concerned Milwaukee- the Horicon road, the Rock River canal, etc. - but, in common with others who dabbled in such schemes for the city's advancement, his personal gains were nothing.  He invested some in real estate, and finally died at the old homestead in the Thirteenth Ward, on the 6th of February, 1877.  Mr. RICHARDS married a sister of his first wife in 1845.  He was a thorough Democrat to the time of his death.

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