Individual Citation

The Richmond Compiler

• ID: 377
• End Date: August 26, 1844
• Frequency: Daily (ex. Sun)
• Lineage ID: 87
• Proprietors: Cowardin & Davis
• Start Date: January 1837
• Variant Number: Richmond 19-20
• Notes: In early January 1837, printer Davis took on editor James A. Cowardin (1811-82), formerly a clerk in the office of the Enquirer, as his new partner; the pair promptly resumed using shortened title to form used briefly in 1835 by Gallaher & Walker; Cowardin eventually turned Compiler into a Whig paper in advance of the 1840 elections.
• Lineage Title: Compiler
• Related Bios: None

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