Staunton Spectator

• id: 431
• end_date: August 15, 1865
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 100
• proprietors: Strasburg & Argenbright
• start_date: ca. July 11, 1865
• variant_number: Staunton 06-18
• notes: Following the raid on Staunton in June 1864, Mauzy decamped to Lewisburg, where he had lived previously, and remained there until August 1865; during that enforced absence, his two lead journeymen – David Strasburg and Newtown Argenbright – reconstructed the Spectator office. Some authorities report the concern of Strasburg & Argenbright resumed publication of the weekly in June 1865, but the content of the only surviving number of the paper bearing their imprimatur (August 4, 1865) points to the start date seen here. Mauzy returned to Staunton shortly thereafter and appears as "editor & publisher" with the issue of August 22, 1865, so the end date seen here. Yet Strasburg and Argenbright retained an interest in the Spectator until 1882, as part of the firm of Richard Mauzy & Co.; initially, the printers purportedly took a share of any profits garnered in lieu of wages in the post-war period; how long the arrangement continued in that form is uncertain.
• lineage_title: Republican Farmer
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