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Newspaper New-Haven Daily Herald (New Haven, Conn.) 1841-1848

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About New-Haven Daily Herald (New Haven, Conn.) 1841-1848

The Daily Herald, later the New-Haven Daily Herald, was the first daily paper established in Connecticut. Averaging four pages per issue, the Herald covered local and political news from a Whig perspective, following politics closely and reporting on elections in detail. Subscriptions cost $5 per year.

Established in 1832 by T. G. Woodward, the Daily Herald changed titles in 1841 when Woodward partnered with John Bennett Carrington Sr. (1811-1882), a prominent local journalist whose family had been in the newspaper business for generations. The Carrington Publishing Company, established in 1884 by Carrington’s son, John B. Carrington (1849-1929), went on to publish the Daily Morning Journal and Courier (1894-1907) and its later iterations, influencing the intellectual landscape in New Haven through 1973. The younger Carrington served at times as director of the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad, director of the National Savings Bank, and director of the Connecticut Company.

Front-page coverage in the Daily Herald included schedules for the newly developed Hartford and New-Haven Railroad, which, with an 1833 charter, was the first railroad line developed in the state of Connecticut. Upon merging with the New York and New Haven Railroad, it became the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad in 1872, also known simply as the “New Haven.” The consolidated railroad system would dominate railroad transportation in Southern New England until 1968, and the Herald covered its early activities. The front page also typically featured advertisements, promoting products such as patent medicines claiming to cure common ailments. Local business ads included tools, rooms for rent, dancing school, homes for sale, fabrics, books, and produce.

Notable coverage in the Herald included abolitionist support for the captives arrested after taking control of the La Amistad, a ship that became famous after enslaved captives overthrew the Spanish captains who were transporting the people to their plantation in Cuba in July 1839. The ship, originally bound for Cuba, was seized off the coast of Long Island, New York before the captives were incarcerated in New Haven. Much of the ensuing trial took place in that city. To recognize the events of the Amistad Uprising, New Haven erected the Amistad Memorial in 1998, and a replica of the original ship was completed in 2000 in Mystic Seaport. It can be visited today at a port in New Haven.

The early Temperance movement also influenced the paper’s editorials and stories, as the teachings of Temperance activists like Lyman Beecher of Litchfield, a Presbyterian minister and father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, became more and more popular throughout the state.

Provided By: Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT

About this Newspaper

Title

  • New-Haven Daily Herald (New Haven, Conn.) 1841-1848

Dates of Publication

  • 1841-1848

Created / Published

  • New Haven, Conn. : Woodward & Carrington, 1841-

Headings

  • -  New Haven (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Connecticut--New Haven
  • -  United States--Connecticut--New Haven--New Haven

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Daily (except Sunday)
  • -  Vol. 9, no. 77 (Apr. 1, 1841)-v. 2, no. 324 (Feb. 25, 1848).
  • -  Published as: New Haven daily herald, -1848.
  • -  Publisher: John B. Carrington, <1845-184>.
  • -  Issues for 1841-Mar. 3, 1847 also called: Whole no. 2496-4139.
  • -  Available on microfilm from the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
  • -  Weekly eds.: Connecticut herald (New Haven, Conn. : 1821), 1841-184, and: Connecticut herald and weekly courier, 184 -184.
  • -  Morning journal and courier (DLC)sn 82015483 (OCoLC)8817820

Medium

  • volumes : illustrations ; 57-68 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper 7250

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn82015816

OCLC Number

  • 8810775

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New-Haven Daily Herald New Haven, Conn. -1848. (New Haven, CT), Jan. 1 1841. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015816/.

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(1841, January 1) New-Haven Daily Herald New Haven, Conn. -1848. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015816/.

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New-Haven Daily Herald New Haven, Conn. -1848. (New Haven, CT) 1 Jan. 1841. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn82015816/.