The Lima Recorder (1869-1989)
A Three Generation Van Gelder Family Enterprise “The Lima Recorder,” Lima’s long-time weekly newspaper was first established in 1869 when Elmer Houser began publication. Over subsequent years, a number of Lima publishers: Houser and Dennis, Dennis and Dennis, and Dennis and Deal took over the publication. In 1875, A. Tiffany Norton, a prolific publisher of local history who eventually became one of the editors of Rochester’s Democrat & Chronicle, purchased the paper and edited it until 1881. That year, 1881, Phineas C. Van Gelder purchased the paper and it remained under the management of the Van Gelder family for three…
