The Lexington Intelligencer (Lexington, Mo.)
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1,126 issues from 1901 to 1922, published in Lexington, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
Judge William Young, John T. Smith, and Richard B. Vaughan started the Lexington Weekly Intelligencer in Lexington, Missouri, in April 1871. The paper was known as “the organ of Democracy” and was Democratic in its politics. The Intelligencer was a weekly paper published on Wednesday. Young, its first editor, had been born and raised in Lafayette County, Missouri. He served in the Confederate army and fought in both the battles of Carthage and Wilson’s Creek where he was injured, losing his left arm and three fingers from his right hand. After the war, Young studied law under Judge Samuel Locke Sawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1868. Young practiced law while he was editor of the Intelligencer. He left the paper in 1872 and was elected sheriff in the same year. In May 1874, Young was appointed judge of the Lafayette County court to help the county clean up its financial affairs.
In the years that followed, proprietors and editors of the Intelligencer changed frequently. Lafayette W. Groves purchased Smith’s interest in the paper shortly after it was established. Groves shared the editorial duties with Young until July 1872 when Young retired and Grove became the sole editor. During the state election campaign of that year, Groves and Edwin Turner of the Missouri Valley Register, the Republican paper in town, exchanged harsh word in their editorials and on the streets of Lexington. In his editorial on October 24, 1872, Turner claimed that Groves had deserted the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lexington, Missouri, 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