The Columbia Herald (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935
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1,492 issues from 1881 to 1921, published in Columbia, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
Early records of the Columbia Herald were destroyed in a fire, so little is known about its origins. The earliest extant copy of this weekly dates from 1861. Based on the volume and issue number of this copy, it is most likely that the paper was established circa 1850. J.J. McDaniel was its first editor. It is known that the Herald supported the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in 1852, Franklin Pierce.
In 1861, Hunter Nicholson was publisher and editor of the Herald. The paper was suspended during the Civil War, resuming publication in 1866, with William S. Bliss as publisher and Nicholson returning as editor. The July 23, 1869 issue shows Alfred S. Horsley as editor and publisher. On January 5, 1872, the Herald announced that the current partnership would be dissolved and in the future the paper would be published by A.S. Horsley and Harden P. Figuers, with “no material changes.” In February 1873, the Columbia Herald merged with the Columbia Mail to form the Herald and Mail.
In 1881, the newspaper came close to going out of business. Thirty local businessmen came to its rescue by forming a corporation called The Columbia Herald Company. The publishers of the Maury Sentinel and the Columbia Journal merged their interests with those of the Herald and took stock in the new company. The paper’s name reverted to the Columbia Herald.
Former U.S. Senator Henry Cooper became editor at the Herald in 1885, and Frank D. Lander succeeded him in 1887. In 1892, a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Columbia, 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