The ''Intelligencer'' was a weekly, and later

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...

first published in

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,71 ...

on June 1, 1849 as ''The Weekly Intelligencer''. The founders were

Benjamin Bomar Benjamin Franklin Bomar (August 9, 1816 – February 1, 1868) was the second mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Bomar was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to Reverend Thomas Bomar and Elizabeth Carlton High and studied medicine in Charleston. He p ...

, Zachariah A. Rice,

Jonathan Norcross Jonathan Norcross (April 18, 1808 – December 18, 1898) was elected in 1850 as the fourth Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, serving the customary term at the time of one year. Dubbed the "Father of Atlanta" and "hard fighter of everything" by publi ...

and

Ira O. McDaniel Ira Oliver McDaniel (January 19, 1807 – August 28, 1887) was a cotton merchant, farmer and newspaper man in early Atlanta, Georgia. Personal life In the 1830s he lived in Monroe, Georgia with his wife Rebecca Walker (November 10, 1819 &nd ...

. During the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by state ...

, the newspaper had great trouble acquiring paper from its supplier, the paper mill at

Sope Creek Sope Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 15, 2011 stream located in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It is a significant tributary of the Chattahooc ...

. In 1864, it was purchased by Jared Whitaker, who briefly moved it to Macon during the war. He moved it back to Atlanta after the war, and it was the only city paper to survive.

John H. Steele John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

served as its editor from 1860 until his death in January 1871. Captain Evan Howell was its city editor starting in 1868. The paper closed in April 1871, soon after Steele's death and after intense competition from the new Atlanta ''

Constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princip ...

''. The newer paper bought at auction the mechanical equipment of the ''Intelligencer''. At that same auction, Whitaker purchased the archives and other paperwork.

Notes

External links

* {{Atlanta Defunct newspapers published in Georgia (U.S. state) History of Atlanta Publications established in 1849 Publications established in 1871