The Harbinger (Chapel Hill newspaper)

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• Chapel Hill's first newspapers: the Harbinger and the Columbian Repository, 1832–1836

1. March 1832 William B. Crittenden proposes a newspaper called the Harbinger for Chapel Hill Crittenden, a lawyer from New York, issued proposals in March 1832 to publish the Harbinger at Chapel Hill. He seems not to have started it; the Harbinger that began in August 1833 was published by Isaac C. Patridge under the supervision of the university professors and lasted a year. People: Isaac C. Patridge Internet Archive: Daniel Miles McFarland, "North Carolina Newspapers, Editors and Journalistic Politics, 1815-1835", North Carolina Historical Review 30 (1953), p. 380
2. 1833 to 1834 Isaac C. Partridge publishes The Harbinger Isaac C. Partridge's weekly The Harbinger, one of the county's first literary periodicals, began at Chapel Hill on August 27, 1833, after a prospectus that January, and ran for about a year. It covered the sciences and arts and leaned on professors Elisha Mitchell and William Hooper for its contents. People: Elisha Mitchell The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), August 27, 1833, first number · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
3. by February 20, 1834 The Harbinger press prints Joseph A. Hill's address to the Institute of Education Isaac C. Patridge, publisher of the Harbinger, issued as a pamphlet the address Joseph A. Hill of Wilmington gave the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill in June 1833. Papers across the state acknowledged copies and praised its attack on heavy corporal punishment and on emulation as a spur to study. People: Isaac C. Patridge The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), February 20, 1834, p. 2
4. August 27, 1834 The Harbinger suspends publication at Chapel Hill after its first year Publisher Isaac C. Patridge closed the Harbinger's first subscription year with the issue of August 27, 1834, and announced that the paper would stop for some weeks while he decided whether to take a partner or retire as publisher. He had already offered part or all of the establishment for sale and asked delinquent subscribers to pay. People: Isaac C. Patridge The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), August 27, 1834, p. 3

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