Daily Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.)
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876 issues from 1890 to 1892, published in Clarksville, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle, first published as the Weekly Chronicle, claims to be the longest continuously published newspaper in Tennessee. Some sources maintain that the paper was established in 1808. However, the earliest extant copies date from 1818, with volume numbers which suggest it began in 1815. In its earliest days, the newspaper reflected and boosted the growth of the Cumberland River town of Clarksville, then a center for transportation, agriculture, and marketing. The Cumberland River brought steamboat traffic, and by the 1850s railroads also spurred commerce. The early history of the paper is not well documented, but it is believed that it was established by Francis Richardson and later owned by Ewing P. McGinty. When McGinty left to edit the Nashville True Whig in 1849, Robert Warner Thomas took over as publisher and editor of the Chronicle. Highly respected by his peers, Thomas was considered the ablest political editor in Tennessee; his editorials were often printed in other newspapers of the time. In the 1850s and 1860s, the paper was variously titled the Clarksville Weekly Chronicle, the Weekly Clarksville Chronicle, the Clarksville Chronicle, and again the Clarksville Weekly Chronicle. By the late 1860s, the paper was again named the Clarksville Chronicle. Between 1873 and 1890, it was called the Clarksville Weekly Chronicle. The owners and editorial staff of the Chronicle changed little during the early years. In 1857, Thomas sold the paper to J.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Clarksville, Tennessee, 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