Petersburg Daily Courier

• id: 265
• end_date: November 12, 1814
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sun.)
• lineage_id: 66
• proprietors: Wood & Yancey
• start_date: September 21, 1814
• variant_number: Petersburg 07-01
• notes: First daily newspaper attempted in Petersburg; editor Wood engaged with printer Yancey earlier that summer to produce this paper; in the interim, Yancey became co-proprietor of Petersburg Intelligencer, which forced Wood to find another partner so that Yancey could focus his energies on that journal.
• lineage_title: Daily Courier
• Related Bios:
  • John Wood
  • Francis Garland Yancey

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