Staunton Spectator

• id: 420
• end_date: September 16, 1831
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 100
• proprietors: Kenton Harper
• start_date: February 27, 1829
• variant_number: Staunton 06-07
• notes: With issue of February 27, 1829, Harper resumed sole ownership of the Spectator with dissolution of firm of Michie & Harper; that five-month-long alliance evidently allowed his brother William to accrue capital needed to begin the South Branch Intelligencer in the Hampshire County seat of Romney in 1830, that town's first newspaper; Michie was later involved in papers in both Staunton and Harrisonburg.
• lineage_title: Republican Farmer
• Related Bios:
  • Kenton Harper

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