Staunton Spectator and General Advertiser

• id: 425
• end_date: November 22, 1848
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 100
• proprietors: Kenton Harper
• start_date: March 15, 1838
• variant_number: Staunton 06-12
• notes: With issue of March 15, 1838, Harper resumed sole ownership of the Spectator on Jacob Sosey's removal to Missouri; he remained such until selling the paper in November 1848. After having abandoned use of a motto in 1825, he presented on his masthead during the 1840 election: "One presidential term, reduction of executive power, retrenchment and reform." Harper left his paper in unnamed hands when he led a volunteer militia unit to garrison duty along the Mexican border in the summer of 1847; on his return to Virginia in August 1848, he evidently began negotiations to sell the Spectator, and so sold the weekly the following November; it is quite likely that those purchasers – Lyttleton and Joseph A. Waddell – conducted the paper in his absence.
• lineage_title: Republican Farmer
• Related Bios:
  • Kenton Harper

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