Orme, Richard M. ( 1797-1869 ) and Denison, Henry (1795-1819) Southern recorder. [Vol. 45, no. 16 (April 19, 1864)]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.10 Author/Creator: Orme, Richard M. ( 1797-1869 ) and Denison, Henry (1795-1819) Place Written: Milledgeville, Georgia Type: Newspaper Date: 19 April 1864 Pagination: 4 p. ; 60 x 42.5 cm. Order a Copy
Includes descriptions of Southern officials, including P. G. T. Beauregard as General, Robert E. Lee as General, Stonewall Jackson as General, and Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy. Battles of Shiloh and Murfreesboro. Excerpt from a debate over Negro equality in Congress. Includes various articles regarding food preservation and homemade medications.
1819 - The Southern Recorder was established by Richard McAllister Orme and Henry Denison, 1820 - The Southern Recorder began publication by Seaton Grantland and Richard M. Orme.
Henry Denison died from fever on October 31, 1819 at the age of 23. Denison and Richard Orme had worked in the printing office of Seaton and Fleming Grantland, publishers of The Georgia Journal. Denison was a Milledgeville school teacher. Together, these men were to have been the founders of a new newspaper, The Southern Recorder. They ordered the materials needed to publish the paper, but before the first issue was published on February 15, 1820, Denison died.
Richard McAlister Orme (1797-1869) lived during that period of our history when democratic government was yet considered an experiment. Like other intellectual men, he was keenly interested in the solution of the problems that were constantly arising in the political affairs of the nation.
Born in Montgomery county, Maryland, August 6, 1797, Richard McAlister Orme was the sixth child of John and Sarah McAlister Orme, who moved with their family to Georgia, in 1813.
In 1815, Richard McAlister Orme came to Milledgeville and entered at once the Journalistic work that was to honor and be honored by his efforts.
Starting at the bottom in the printing office of Seaton and Fleming Grantland, publishers of the Georgia Journal, he applied himself with such good effect that by 1819, he felt ready to establish his own business. Selecting Mr. Henry Denison, a gifted young northern man, then teaching school in
Milledgeville, as his associate, he established the Southern Recorder. The untimely death of Mr. Denison occurred before the first issue of the new paper came out, and in consequence, Mr. Seaton Grantland became his partner in the venture.
Located in the most southern of the original states of the Union, the Southern Recorder, under Mr. Orme's editorial guidance, became one of the most justly celebrated and influential papers of the South.
In 1872, the Southern Recorder and the Federal Union merged to form the Union and Recorder (1872-1884)
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