Biography:

Originally published by Noah Webster under the title American Minerva, the paper began as the Commercial Advertiser in September 1797 after a series of intermediate name changes.  Webster ceased his work with the paper in 1803, and Zachariah Lewis took over as publisher. Under its two first publishers the Commercial Advertiser was strongly Federalist, and when Lewis sold the paper to William Stone (editor) and Francis Hall (publisher) in April 1820, it remained loyal to DeWitt Clinton and the Federalist project to construct the Eerie Canal. With Stone and Hall, the paper became known for publishing cutting-edge literary works by Robert Charles Sands, Lucretia and Margaret Davidson, and other prominent poets.
In the election of 1828, the Advertiser supported National Republican candidate John Quincy Adams, who lost to Andrew Jackson; even with a losing endorsement, the paper remained popular and moved to support the newly forming Whig Party. During these years, the Commercial Advertiser also gained notoriety for publicly feuding with novelist James Fennimore Cooper; along with a number of other papers, Cooper sued the Commercial Advertiser in 1840 for libel over reviews of his books Home as Found and the History of the Navy in the United States. Early in 1844, Stone left his editorship due to illness and died soon after; Francis Hall assumed his position. Leadership of the paper changed hands several times over the next decades, until the Commercial Advertiser was rebranded in 1904 as The Globe and Commercial Advertiser, popularly known as the New York Globe. In 1923, Frank Munsey bought the paper and merged it with the New York Sun.