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Source: History of St. Clair County
        Page 138-139
        
             THOMAS CHITTENDEN FAY, who is entitled to the credit of
        establishing the first newspaper in St. Clair county, was a
        strange, eccentric man who came to St. Clair in 1829.  He was
        born in Bennington, Vermont, and having learned the art of
        printing, established, in 1811, a newspaper called the Lynx
        in Onondaga county, New York, which he managed for about two
        years, and during this time he had as apprentice, Thurlow 
        Weed, then a boy of 14.  He was a man of rather violent 
        temper, and in September, 1812, after a quarrel with his
        associates, he left them and his family and never returned
        there.  The next known of him is in Georgetown, South
        Carolina, where, in 1827, he married Mary J. Broderick, and
        not long afterward went to St. Clair, probably expecting it
        as the county seat to be a desirable location.  He bought
        several parcels of property for his wife and her mother, 
        Jane Crosby, and in 1830, his family came to St. Clair.  He
        returned south in 1833 and in 1834 shipped to St. Clair as
        a payment on his land purchases, a printing press and out-
        fit with which the St. Clair Whig was issued in the latter
        part of the same year,  Mr. Thomas M. Perry being the printer
        and publisher.  A few years later he died without returning
        to St. Clair.
        
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