The Nashville Daily American , also published as the Daily American and Nashville American , ( c. 1876 –1910) was a newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee . It sponsored the Nashville Americans baseball team. It was acquired by The Tennessean in 1911.
8-473: 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. The paper was preceded by the Nashville Union and Nashville American , Democratic Party -aligned publications. They combined to form the Nashville Union and American . Editor George G. Poindexter and Allen A. Hall of
16-522: A banker, bought the Nashville American around February 1909. Control of the paper transferred to Ochs on March 10, 1909. Around June 1910, the paper published a 180-page special edition of the newspaper to celebrate the Nashville American' s 98th year anniversary. The New York Times covered the special issue, stating, "...the magnitude of The American's achievement can be computed, and to some degree realized, even by those who know nothing about
24-630: The Nashville Daily News had a rivalry. After Poindexter accused Hall of being an abolitionist the heat and intensity increased and threats were exchanged. When Poindexter went to Hall's office he was shot and killed. Feuding at Tennessee newspapers was lampooned in Mark Twain 's short story "Journalism in Tennessee", based on his experiences as a printer and journalist in Tennessee in the 1850s. The paper suspended publication during
32-677: The American Civil War , Colyar represented the state in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865. After the war, Colyar resumed his legal practise in Winchester, but he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1867. He was a creditor and later president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company , which used mainly African-American leased convict labor to produce steel. He served as a member of
40-813: The Tennessee House of Representatives in the 1870s, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor three times. Colyar became the editor of the Nashville American (later known as The Tennessean ) in 1880. He subsequently served as the editor of The News , another newspaper based in Nashville, until he became the owner and editor of the American newspaper. Colyar was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South . He died on December 13, 1907, in Nashville, Tennessee. He
48-618: The American Civil War and resumed in 1865 and went through a series of name changes, publishing regimes, and mergers. 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. Milton B. Ochs, managing editor of the Chattanooga Times and Thomas R. Preston,
56-564: The mechanical difficulties that had to be overcome in producing and distributing a paper of such enormous size." 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 Nashville Tennessean , with the plan to merge the two newspapers. Arthur St. Clair Colyar Arthur St. Clair Colyar (June 23, 1818 – December 13, 1907)
64-588: Was an American lawyer, Confederate politician, and newspaper editor. Colyar was born on June 23, 1818, in Washington County, Tennessee . His father was Alexander Colyar. He moved to Franklin County, Tennessee , with his parents when he was 12. Colyar studied the law with Micah Taul . Colyar was admitted to the bar in 1846. He practised the law in Winchester, Tennessee , until 1861. During
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