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On January 9, 1847, the first edition of The California Star was published in San Francisco (then known as Yerba Buena). This was the first newspaper published in San Francisco and the second newspaper published in California (the Californian newspaper had been published since August 15, 1846 in Monterey). The editor of the Star was Samuel Brannan, who brought an iron printing press with him when he came to California in 1846 aboard the ship the Brooklyn. The Star was a four-page paper published