Times-Picayune Has Its Roots in a Newspaper-Loving Town

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By: The Times-Picayune

The two printers from the East Coast arrived in New Orleans in 1835 with large ambitions. George Wilkins Kendall and Francis Asbury Lumsden had pooled their earnings as compositors and press foremen. They aimed to start their own newspaper.

As entrepreneurs, they were an ideal pair – Lumsden methodical and organized; Kendall adventurous and innovative.































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