The Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

• 1848–1862
• Newspaper

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3,261 issues from 1848 to 1862, published in Evansville, Indiana, digitised for Chronicling America.

The Evansville Daily Journal was established in 1834 by William Town but did not appear as a daily until 1848, a year after Evansville officially became a city of Indiana. Town had relocated to Evansville from the East and worked as both a grammar school teacher and printer. In March 1834, he disseminated the first issue of the Evansville Journal and General Advertiser, which was a pro-Whig (later Republican) paper. Town remained the newspaper’s owner until his death in 1839.

William H. and John J. Chandler became the joint owners and editors of the paper in 1839. Under their management, the title was eventually shortened to the Evansville Journal. A year later, John left the paper and his brother William became the sole owner. William Chandler debuted the Evansville Daily Journal in 1848.

In 1848, Addison H. Sanders purchased the Journal from William Chandler. Sanders focused on improving the city department portion of the newspaper. The expansion of the paper paralleled the economic growth of Evansville during the 1850s, when its population grew to 4,700 as newcomers were attracted to jobs with railroad firms, saw mills, and factories.

In October 1856, the Journal passed to Francis Y. Carlile. By April 30, 1858, Carlile had partnered with Indiana printers Frank M. Thayer and John Henderson McNeely to form the Evansville Journal Company (later Evansville Journal-News Company). Among the improvements the new proprietors made to the newspaper office was the installation…

Genres

News

Published in

Evansville, Indiana, United States

Language

English

Collection

Chronicling America

Licence or status

None stated by the archive

Rights

The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.

Credit

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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