Delaware State Journal and Statesman (Wilmington, Del.)
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773 issues from 1857 to 1870, published in Wilmington, Delaware, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded in Wilmington by Peter Brynberg and Robert Porter in 1833, the Delaware State Journal was published on a semi-weekly basis with Moses Bradford as editor. Both a contemporary and a rival of the Delaware Gazette, the Delaware State Journal was edited by Henry Naff until his retirement in 1849. At that time, Henry Eckel, a journeyman at the Delaware State Journal purchased the newspaper.
In 1855, Eckel also bought the Statesman, which had recently merged with another Wilmington paper, the Blue Hen’s Chicken. In that same year, the Journal was renamed the Delaware State Journal and Statesman; it appeared in both semi-weekly and weekly editions. The semi-weekly, published from May 29, 1855, until June 4, 1858, was known as the Delaware State Journal, Statesman, and Blue Hen’s Chicken. The weekly version was called the Weekly Delaware State Journal, Statesman, and Blue Hen’s Chicken. The latter ran briefly from May 21 to June 1, 1859, after which it was renamed the Daily Journal and Statesman. Soon thereafter, their titles reverted to Delaware State Journal and Statesman and Weekly Delaware State Journal and Statesman.
In its early years, the Journal served as a Whig publication, rivaling the Delaware Gazette, a Democratic newspaper. The Delaware State Journal and Statesman maintained its Whig association until the party was replaced by Republicanism, an affiliation it maintained until after the Civil War. In 1868, the Delaware State Journal and Statesman began to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wilmington, Delaware, 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
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress