The Chapel Hill Ledger

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1. 1878 to 1880 Joseph A. Harris publishes the Chapel Hill Ledger Joseph A. Harris began printing the Chapel Hill Ledger in a small wooden shop on the south side of East Franklin Street. He stopped publishing it in 1880. People: Joseph A. Harris Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 135
2. September 7, 1878 Francis D. Winston gives up his place as an editor of the Chapel Hill Ledger Francis D. Winston announced in the Ledger that his college duties obliged him to leave the paper, and the remaining editor took charge alone, promising to keep up its literary standing and to work for education, agriculture and the general welfare. The Chapel Hill Ledger, September 7, 1878, p. 2
3. September 20, 1879 Charles B. Aycock edits the Ledger in Chapel Hill Aycock, then a university student, took over as editor of the weekly Chapel Hill Ledger in 1879, succeeding Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The paper ran until 1880. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer The Chapel Hill Ledger, November 1, 1879, p. 2 (masthead) · Also: NCpedia: Aycock, Charles Brantley; The Chapel Hill Ledger, September 13, 1879, p. 3
4. January 10, 1880 Charles B. Aycock leaves the Ledger and Joseph A. Harris takes over as editor Joseph A. Harris, who had founded the Chapel Hill Ledger nearly two years before, announced that Charles B. Aycock had withdrawn as editor and that he would edit and publish the paper himself. People: Joseph A. Harris The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 10, 1880, p. 2

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