Wheeling Times and Advertiser (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,955 issues from 1840 to 1848, published in Wheeling, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Wheeling Times & Advertiser was the product of James Edwin Wharton. Born Jonathan Whitcomb, Jr., he learned the printing trade in the offices of the Fitchburg Gazette in Massachusetts. Yet political differences led to a bitter fallout with his father and a name change to James Wharton. Around 1835, Whitcomb-turned-Wharton moved to Wheeling, Virginia, and soon became co-editor of the Wheeling Tri-Weekly Times and Advertiser alongside E. W. Newton. Wharton also oversaw the publication of a weekly iteration of the paper known as the Western Virginia Times. When Newton left the printing business, Wharton became the sole proprietor and editor for both the weekly Western Virginia Times and the tri-weekly Wheeling Times and Advertiser (dropping the tri-weekly from the title).
Headquartered on Union Street, the first floor of the Advertiser‘s offices constituted a reading room, stocked with books and a variety of magazines and newspapers which readers could peruse for a small fee. A strong supporter of education and literacy, Wharton’s reading room proved popular in a town without a library. It was undoubtedly also a clever way to attract new subscribers.
Those interested in the Advertiser could subscribe for five dollars annually. The four-page Advertiser offered Wheeling’s residents a variety of news. Local affairs, such as city elections, temperance meetings, business advertisements, the arrival of merchant goods, stagecoach and mail schedules, and more lined the paper’s…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wheeling, West Virginia, 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