[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Yo>tkei{.s Statesman. — In 1856, one year after the incorporation of the village, and four years after the beginning of The Yonkers Herald, Mr. Thom-as C. Cornell, whose passing question had been the means of bringing, that paper into existence, not be-ing in sympathy with the political direction given to it by Mr. Smith, united with others in the effort to start a Whig journal. At the time the new law-firm of Stedwell & Mann, had just been formed in the vil-lage. Mr. Jeremiah H. Stedwell, one of the gentle-men interested in the project, brought to Yonkers to edit such a journal, his friend Mr. Matthew F. Rowe, who was publishing a paper at the time in Peekskill. On the 23d of February, 1856, Mr. Rowe issued the first number of a weekly paper under the name of 'ike Examiner. The population of the town at the time was seven thousand five hundred and fifty-four. Mr. Rowe ran the paper as a personal enterprise till 1863. About 1861, however, another weekly, called The < 'larion, had been started. In 1863 the Exam-iner and the Clarion were both purchased by Everett Clapp, Justus Lawrence, G. Hilton Scribner and others. Both names were dropped, and a paper was started -with Mr. Rowe as the editor, and The Yonkers Statesman as the name. This arrangement continued