The New York Atlas was a Sunday newspaper in New York City which was published from 1838 until the 1880s.
6-466: The paper was founded as a Sunday-only paper in 1838 by Anson Herrick and Jesse A. Fell as the Sunday Morning Atlas . It began publication on August 12, 1838. Frederick West soon joined as an editor and partner in the paper, Fell departed, and John F. Ropes also joined as a publisher, and the publishers then were known as "Herrick, West, and Ropes". By November 1842, its reported circulation
12-581: The New York city board of aldermen from Ward 19 during 1853–1857. Herrick was appointed by President James Buchanan as naval storekeeper for the port of New York, serving from 1857 to 1861. Herrick was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865). Herrick was one of the few Democrats to vote for the submission of the 13th Amendment to the states. (Herrick had previously published editorials in favor of
18-639: The New-York Atlas from 1853-81. Anson Herrick Anson Herrick (January 21, 1812 – February 6, 1868) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War . A newspaperman by trade, he served a single term in Congress from 1863 to 1865. Born in Lewiston, Maine , Herrick attended public school. He was a son of Ebenezer Herrick . Later on, Herrick learned
24-677: The amendment, but apparently voted for it in exchange for President Lincoln appointing his brother as a federal revenue assessor. After Lincoln's death the appointment was never confirmed.) Herrick was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress . He subsequently resumed his journalistic pursuits. He served as a delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866. Herrick died in New York City February 6, 1868, and
30-458: The art of printing. Herrick established The Citizen at Wiscasset, Maine , in 1833, and moved to New York City in 1836. Herrick established the New York Atlas in 1838, which he continued until his death in 1868. In 1841, he founded a two-penny daily newspaper with John F. Ropes titled The New York Aurora , which was later edited for a time by Walt Whitman . Herrick served as a member of
36-566: Was 4,500, ranking it second (after the New York Herald ) among the five New York papers who were publishing on Sunday at the time. The paper continued operation under Herrick's sons Carleton Moses and Anson after Anson Sr. died in 1868, and ceased publication sometime in the early 1880s. According to Library of Congress holdings information, the paper's title was the Sunday Morning Atlas from 1838-40, The Atlas from 1840-53, and
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