The Virginian

• id: 136
• end_date: through February 1893
• frequency: Weekly > 2/week > 3/week
• lineage_id: 40
• proprietors: Pleasants, Butler & Co. (to 1824, then others)
• start_date: August 6 , 1822
• variant_number: Lynchburg 04-13
• notes: Paper created by merger of their Lynchburg Press with competing Lynchburg Gazette to form a new political journal in support of Pleasant's father's gubernatorial campaign. Subsequent publishers were: Toler & Colin (Jan. 1824 to Jan. 1825); Fletcher & Toler (Jan. 1825 to Nov. 1841); Toler, Townley, & Statham (Nov. 1841 to March 1846); Blackford, Statham, & Dillard (March 1846 to Nov. 1847); Blackford, Townley, & Dillard (Nov. 1847 to Feb. 1850); Townley, Dillard, & Shields (Feb. 1850 to Nov. 1850); Terry & Shields (Nov. 1850 to Feb. 1854); McDonald & Peters (Feb. 1854 to April 1857); Charles W. Button (April 1857 to July 1885); Joseph and Charles Fletcher Button (July 1885 to Feb. 1887); Charles W. Button (Feb. 1887 to March 1887); Alexander McDonald & W.W. Wysor (March 1887 to Feb. 1893). Paper was absorbed by the Lynchburg News in February 1893.
• lineage_title: Lynchburg Press
• Related Bios:
  • John Hampden Pleasants
  • Joseph Butler

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