Individual Citation

The Wheeling Repository

• ID: 449
• End Date: November 5, 1808
• Frequency: Weekly
• Lineage ID: 107
• Proprietors: Alexander Armstrong
• Start Date: March 5, 1807
• Variant Number: Wheeling 01-01
• Notes: First newspaper published in the northern panhandle of modern-day West Virginia; an attempt at a non-partisan journal supporting the town's developing commercial ventures; its publication ended after a continuous run of 78 numbers, although with a nine-week suspension from August 6 to October 8, 1807.
• Lineage Title: Wheeling Repository
• Related Bios:
  • Alexander Armstrong

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