New York Weekly Explained

The New York Weekly was a story newspaper published from 1858 - 1910 in New York City. Under related names it was published from 1846 - 1915.

The paper had its origins in 1846 as the New York Dispatch (1846 - 1854), and New York Weekly Dispatch (1855 - 1858), with Amor J. Williamson as proprietor.^[1] and was purchased by Francis Shubael Smith and Francis Scott Street in 1858. Smith was an editor at the Dispatch and Street a bookkeeper, and they paid $40,000 for the ownership of the paper (paying nothing up front, but paying it off within 5 years).

From 1910-15 it was published as the New York Weekly Welcome.^[2]

See also

• Street & Smith

External links

• Street and Smith's New York Weekly, selected issues, via Villanova University

Notes and References

1. (2 March 1867). Obituary - Mr. Amor J. Williamson, The New York Times
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=S95ObmXSPggC&pg=PA191 Dime Novel Companion, The: A Source Book: A Source Book