Daily Richmond Enquirer

• id: 337
• end_date: before October 10, 1854
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sun)
• lineage_id: 81
• proprietors: Ritchies & Pryor
• start_date: By September 27, 1853
• variant_number: Richmond 13-10
• notes: In February 1846, Thomas Ritchie Jr. killed John Hampden Pleasants, the founder of the Richmond Whig, in a duel over their attitudes on slavery; after he was acquitted of murder charges, he became ever less an active contributor to the Enquirer, a withdrawal that was hastened by his declining health after the 1852 election. In September 1853, the Ritchie brothers added Roger A. Pryor (1828-1919), a lawyer and journalist from Petersburg, as an editorial partner to address the infirmity of Ritchie Jr., who then died in May 1854.
• lineage_title: The Enquirer
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