BALTIMORE'S POLITICAL NEWSPAPERS

David Graham, Publisher of Baltimore's First Suc-
cessful Daily. - Baltimore's first successful daily
newspaper, the Baltimore Daily Repository made its
first appearance on Monday, October 24, 1791. It was
not the first daily newspaper printed in the city;
four years previous to this date, about August 2, 1787,
Maurice Murphy and Richard Bowen began the publication
of the Palladium of Freedom. Only one copy is known,
number 6, August 8, 1787, located at the American
Antiquarian Society, and it carries a manuscript note
in Goddard's handwriting:

First daily paper at Balt, continued a few
weeks the publishers abdicated under cover of
night.¹

The Baltimore Daily Repository, with various changes
of title, was published until March 31, 1838.

David Graham, the first editor and proprietor of
the Repository arrived in Baltimore about July of
1791 and opened a printing office on Calvert Street,
between Market (now Baltimore) Street and the court
House,² He came from Philadelphia where he had
served his apprenticeship with the well-known firm of

1 Wheeler, J .T. The Maryland press. A bibliography
of Maryland imprints, 1777-1790, item 447.

2 Maryland gasette (Baltimore) July 5, 1791.