Winchester Virginian

• id: 501
• end_date: mid-September 1843
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 113
• proprietors: Lewis Eichelberger
• start_date: By April 13, 1842
• variant_number: Winchester 02-20
• notes: Sometime between issues of December 16, 1840 and April 13, 1842 – most likely in early 1841 – Eichelberger resumed sole ownership of paper, and continued in that role until mid-September 1843; he conveyed the journal to writer John C. Bowyer (1803-80) at that time with approbation of local Democratic party leaders who were seeking to overcome the Whig domination of state and national offices established in the 1840 cycle.
• lineage_title: Winchester Gazette
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