Staunton Spectator and General Advertiser

• id: 424
• end_date: March 8, 1838
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 100
• proprietors: K. Harper & J. Sosey
• start_date: By September 1, 1836
• variant_number: Staunton 06-11
• notes: With issue of September 1, 1836, Harper took Jacob Sosey into partnership in his weekly Spectator; Sosey was a journeyman in his office with whom he had formed a partnership in April 1836 to conduct a campaign paper – the Harrison Advocate or Staunton Spectator Extra – in support of the candidacy of William Henry Harrison; with four Whig candidates contending with Van Buren in that presidential election, Harper seems to have seen little reward for his printer's efforts and secured his future by joining him to the weekly paper; Sosey remained his partner for twenty months.
• lineage_title: Republican Farmer
• Related Bios:
  • Kenton Harper

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