Record of Deaths and Marriages from the Albany Argus, 1826-1828

The Albany Argus newspaper was founded by Jesse Buel in 1813, who remained editor of the semiweekly until 1820, when he sold the paper to Moses I. Cantine and I.Q. Leake. The next year it became the state paper. Cantine's death and Leake's poor health forced Leake to relinquish his duties as editor in chief, and turned the paper over to gifted political writer Edwin Croswell. Croswell, with his cousin Sherman, changed the paper to a daily in 1825. Edwin Croswell proceeded to make the Argus a leading voice of the Democratic Party in New York State. Croswell retired in 1854. These records were compiled by Ralph David Phillips of Nassau, New York.

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