The American Beacon

• id: 220
• end_date: sometime in 1858.
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sunday)
• lineage_id: 59
• proprietors: Uncertain
• start_date: March 28, 1856
• variant_number: Norfolk 11-17
• notes: Following sale of Beacon office, the daily was issued until at least August 1858, based on references to paper elsewhere. Recovery of business was hampered by another fire which destroyed publishing plant on November 11, 1856; that was likely an arson fire as the office was targeted almost annually from 1852 on. Cappon suggests Bagnall and Boothby had a hand in the post-1856 publication, but both men were dead by then, Boothby in the yellow-fever outbreak; he also suggests that the firm of Bisbie & Hathaway was involved for a time, but it is more likely Hathaway was only part of the new Norfolk Day Book which started in October 1857. Paper evidently ceased publication in late 1858, as its office and proprietors are not list the Norfolk's 1859 city directory, issued early that year.
• lineage_title: American Beacon
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