The American Beacon and Commercial Diary

• id: 204
• end_date: August 24, 1816
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sunday)
• lineage_id: 59
• proprietors: Shields & Shepherd
• start_date: August 7, 1815
• variant_number: Norfolk 11-01
• notes: Shepherd, a printer in the Richmond Compiler office of Shields' brother William, came to Norfolk in April 1815 to join Shields in issuing a similar mercantile paper there. They began publishing a thrice-weekly country edition in January 1816 as simply The American Beacon (LCCN no. 85-025810). In April 1816, Shields & Shepherd made Ashburn, their foreman, a partner in the press office producing the American Beacon.
• lineage_title: American Beacon
• Related Bios:
  • Henry Ashburn
  • Samuel Shepherd
  • Hamilton Shields

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