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Floridian & Journal (1849-1865?) was a newspaper in Tallahassee, Florida and one of the leading newspapers in Florida for its time. [1] Samuel Sibley was the editor of the Floridian in 1845. [2] Charles E. Dyke was one of its editors and also served as mayor of Tallahassee. The Library of Congress has a collection of the newspapers editions on microfilm. [3]

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History

Robert Benjamin Hilton moved to Tallahassee, Florida, where he established a law practice in 1849. [4] The same year, he and Augustus Maxwell entered the newspaper business when they co-owned and edited the Floridian in Tallahassee. In 1849 they merged the paper with the Southern Journal to form the Floridian and Journal. [5] The Southern Journal had been published from 1846 until 1849. [6]

The newspaper's office printed Florida Attorney General David P. Hogue's report on cases argued and adjudicated by the Supreme Court of Florida in 1852. [7]

The paper covered one of secessionist U.S. Senator Stephen Mallory's speeches March 27, 1858 and various political movements leading up to Florida's secession from the United States before the American Civil War. [8] Also in 1858 the paper reported on the capture of Billy Bowleg. [9]

"Lincoln is elected. This is the Beginning of the end", the paper declared in 1860. [9]

In 1861 the office printed the publication titled Convention of the People of Florida: Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Tallahassee [sic], on Thursday, January 3, AD, Part 1861, covering the Florida Secession Convention. [10]

Alvan S. Harper photographed the Weekly Floridian / The Floridian Printing Company Building. [11]

Publishers

Publishers of the paper included Maxwell & Hilton, Charles E. Dyke, (1852-1855), Dyke & Williams (1855), J. Jones (1855), Dyke & Carlisle (1861-1863), and Dyke & Sparhawk (1864). [12]

Legacy

The paper's articles are cited as resources for coverage of events including political organizing and Florida's secession movement before the American Civil War. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Graham, Thomas S. Florida Politics and the Tallahassee Press, 1845-61, in The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Jan., 1968), pp. 234-242
  2. ↑ "1843 Tallahassee fire started at Hotel Dixie". Tallahassee Democrat.
  3. ↑ "The Floridian & journal". Library of Congress.
  4. ↑ Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Florida. Tallahassee: Office of the Florida Sentinel, 1849, p. 109.
  5. ↑ Manley, Walter W.; Manley II, Walter W.; Canter, E., The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821-1917. University Press of Florida, 1997 ISBN   0-8130-1540-5. p. 208.
  6. ↑ "floridian+and+journal" "Newspapers in Microform: United States". 1984.
  7. ↑ Supreme Court, Florida (1847). "Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida".
  8. 1 2 Adams, John (2015-09-11). Warrior at Heart: Governor John Milton, King Cotton, and Rebel Florida 1860-1865. ISBN   9781460267851.
  9. 1 2 Hare, Julianne (2002). Tallahassee: A Capital City History. ISBN   9780738523712.
  10. ↑ Convention of the People of Florida: Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Tallahassee [sic], on Thursday, January 3, AD, Part 1861. Office of the Floridian and Journal, Tallahassee; Dyke and Carlisle. 1861
  11. ↑ http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00010357/00001/97x page 77
  12. ↑ Maxwell & Hilton

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