Richmond Enquirer

• id: 334
• end_date: September 14, 1844
• frequency: 2/wk (3/wk during Assy)
• lineage_id: 81
• proprietors: Thomas Ritchie & Sons
• start_date: March 4, 1843
• variant_number: Richmond 13-07
• notes: With issue of March 4, 1843, Ritchie made two of his five sons – William Foushee Ritchie (1813-77) & Thomas Ritchie, Jr. (1819-54) – partners in his business; they would succeed him as the paper's proprietors in May 1845, when Ritchie removed to Washington, D.C., to conduct a paper there for the new Polk administration.
• lineage_title: The Enquirer
• Related Bios:
  • Thomas Ritchie

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