Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,461 issues from 1890 to 1894, published in Asheville, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Asheville Citizen originated as the North Carolina Citizen in 1870,a weekly newspaper serving Asheville and western North Carolina. Randolph Abbott Shotwell (1844–1885), who led a regiment of sharpshooters during Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg and a veteran of daily and weekly editions of the Weekly Journal of Commerce of New Bern, N.C. and the Western Vindicator of Rutherfordton, N.C., started the newspaper. His tenure with the Citizen was short-lived. In 1871, he was charged and convicted of participating in the Ku Klux Klan and sentenced to serve time in prison.
Nathaniel Lafayette “Natt” Atkinson (1832–1894), a lawyer, followed Shotwell as editor and publisher of the Citizen. He sold the newspaper to Robert M. Furman in October 1872. Furman (1846–1904), a native of Louisburg, N.C. and a veteran of newspapers in Louisburg; Henderson, N.C.; Norfolk; and Raleigh, remain tied to the Citizen for the ensuing 16 years, serving as editor and sole owner or co-owner.
In 1880, Furman changed the newspaper’s name to the Asheville Citizen. On January 26, 1882, Furman and his co-editor, Jordan Stone (b. 1838?), announced the addition of John Donald Cameron (1820–1897) as an associate editor and their plans to add a semi-weekly edition of the Citizen. The semi-weekly edition continued to publish as the Asheville Citizen and was distinguished by the words Semi-Weekly Edition at the top of the first column on the first page of the issue. It was published on Wednesdays and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Asheville, North Carolina, 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