The Daily Intelligencer was first published on June 1, 1849 as the young city of Atlanta's first successful daily newspaper.
The founders were Benjamin Bomar

Benjamin Bomar

Benjamin Franklin Bomar was the second mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Bomar was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and studied medicine in Charleston. He practiced medicine in America's first gold rush town of Dahlonega, Georgia for a number of years until he tired of the winters in the Appalachian...

, Z.A. Rice, Jonathan Norcross

Jonathan Norcross

Jonathan Norcross , fourth Mayor of Atlanta, GA. Dubbed the "Father of Atlanta" and "hard fighter of everything." - Henry W. Grady - Personal life :...

 and I.O. McDaniel

I.O. McDaniel

Ira Oliver McDaniel was a cotton merchant, farmer and newspaper man in early Atlanta, Georgia.In the 1830s he lived in Monroe, Georgia with his wife Rebecca Walker where their son, Henry McDaniel, a future Governor of Georgia was born...

.

During the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

, it had great trouble acquiring paper from its supplier, the paper mill at Sope Creek

Sope Creek

Sope Creek is an stream located in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It is a significant tributary of the Chattahoochee River, and under high water levels it can be used for extreme whitewater kayaking...

.
In 1864, it was purchased by Jared Whitaker

Jared Whitaker

Jared Irwin Whitaker was a Georgia newspaperman and politician who served as the 14th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the early days of the American Civil War....

 who briefly moved it to Macon

Macon, Georgia

Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

 then moved back after the war, making it the only Atlanta paper to survive.
John H. Steele

John H. Steele

John H. Steele was an American newspaper editor.Born in Charleston, South Carolina and was living in Georgia by the 1830s.He served as secretary to George W...

 was its editor from 1860 until his death in January 1871 and Captain Evan Howell

Evan Howell

Evan Park Howell was an American politician and early telegraph operator, as well as an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War....

 was its city editor starting in 1868.

The paper closed in April, soon after Steele's death and after intense competition from the new Atlanta Constitution which ended up buying at auction the mechanical equipment of the Intelligencer.
At that same auction, Whitaker purchased the archives and other paperwork.

External links

• Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive Digital Library of Georgia