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

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first published in

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

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, Zachariah A. Rice, Jonathan Norcross and Ira O. McDaniel. During the

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, the newspaper had great trouble acquiring paper from its supplier, the paper mill at Sope Creek. In 1864, it was purchased by

Jared Whitaker Jared Irwin Whitaker (May 4, 1818May 3, 1884) was a Georgia newspaperman, publisher of '' the Daily Intelligencer'' from 1864 to 1871, and earlier served as a politician. Defeating a three-term incumbent to become the 14th Mayor of Atlanta, Geo ...

, 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 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 ''

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

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