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probably left Baltimore, since he disappears from the
city directory after this date. Martin's movements
are obscured from this point. He died in Hew York
in October of 1810, aged thirty-three.¹⁵³

The American, for many years "the leading mer-
cantile journal of a hustling commercial city",¹⁵⁴
continued as a daily for 129 years under a succession
of publishers among whom are numbered William Pechin,
George Dobbin, Thomas Murphy, William Bose, Robert
A. Dobbin, Felix Angus and Prank A. Funsey.¹⁵⁵
Like other newspapers, its title was altered from
time to time, but neither often nor radically. At
the death of Frank Munsey, the Baltimore American
was sold to William R. Hearst;¹⁵⁶ it is now (1943)
published as the Sunday edition of the Baltimore
News-Post, and its volume numbering, which was begun
by Alexander Martin in 1799 has reached CCLXXX.

153 American. October 13, 1810.

154 Mott, F.L. op. cit. p. 188.

155 Penniman, T.D. op. cit. p. 276-277.

156 Ibid. , p. 277.