The American Beacon and Norfolk and Portsmouth Daily Advertiser

• id: 215
• end_date: September 30, 1848
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sunday)
• lineage_id: 59
• proprietors: William E. Cunningham & Co.
• start_date: October 1, 1840
• variant_number: Norfolk 11-12
• notes: With issue of October 1, 1840, William E. Cunningham gained control of the Beacon from Grigsby, purportedly for $60,000. Cunningham retained Bagnall and Boothby in his office; that publishing plant was destroyed by fire on November 27, 1847; Bagnall and Boothby attempted to take control of the Beacon immediately after the fire by printing the paper in Baltimore with assistance of editor John H. Hewitt; Cunningham countered the ploy by publishing the Beacon from the office of Virginia Temperance Advocate in Norfolk a day before the Bagnall & Boothby version was issued on December 1st; the competition was resolved with Bagnall and Boothby selling their shares in the Beacon to Cunningham.
• lineage_title: American Beacon
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