Individual Citation

The Lynchburg Press

• ID: 135
• End Date: August 2, 1822
• Frequency: 2/week
• Lineage ID: 40
• Proprietors: Pleasants, Butler & Co.
• Start Date: January 18, 1822
• Variant Number: Lynchburg 04-12
• Notes: Pleasants made large changes to his paper in 1822 in anticipation of his father's campaign for governor that fall; first Smith sold his interest to Butler, a veteran political journalist, after issue of January 11, 1822; then Pleasants & Butler bought the competing Lynchburg Gazette in August, to form a new political paper, The Virginian.
• Lineage Title: Lynchburg Press
• Related Bios:
  • Joseph Butler
  • John Hampden Pleasants

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