Nashville Daily American
Editor | Arthur St. Clair Colyar |
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The Nashville Daily American, also published as the Daily American and Nashville American, (c. 1876–1910) was a newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] It sponsored the Nashville Americans baseball team. It was acquired by The Tennessean in 1911.
Arthur St. Clair Colyar served as editor. He was one of those featured on trading cards as part of an Allen & Ginter cigarette advertising depicting American newspaper editors.[2]
History
The paper was preceded by the Nashville Union and Nashville American,[3] Democratic Party-aligned publications. They combined to form the Nashville Union and American.[4]
Editor George G. Poindexter and Allen A. Hall of the
In 1888, the Nashville Daily American was purchased by colonels Duncan Cooper, Spurrell Hill, and John Childress. It was changed to a "tariff reform journal" with Cooper acting as editor-in-chief.[5]
Milton B. Ochs, managing editor of the
Ochs managed the paper for 18 months, and after Ochs' resignation as publisher, the paper was sold again; In 1910, the Nashville American was sold to Luke Lea and others, who controlled and published the
References
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- ^ "Tennessee Online Historical Newspapers Summary – The Ancestor Hunt". theancestorhunt.com.
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