Indianapolis Daily Journal

City: Indianapolis

County: Marion

State: Indiana

The Indianapolis Daily Journal was born of many preceding papers that all originated in the Western Censor and Emigrant's Guide, which was first published in March 1823 by Douglass Maguire and Harvey Gregg. John D. DeFrees purchased a later iteration of the Guide and, from 1851 to 1853, published it under the title Daily Indiana State Journal. In 1853, he renamed the paper the Indianapolis Morning Journal. In 1854 he changed the title to the Indianapolis Daily Journal, which was printed every day except Sunday. Republican in orientation, it was published under this title until after the Civil War.

"Daily Indiana State Journal," Library of Congress Find Aid, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047647/; "Indianapolis Morning Journal," Library of Congress Find Aid, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047645/; "The Indianapolis Daily Journal," Library of Congress Find Aid, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015681/; John H. B. Nowland, Early Reminiscences of Indianapolis (Indianapolis: Sentinel Book and Job Printing, 1870), 141.