Biography:

The Columbian Centinel was a continuation of the Massachusetts Centinel and the Republican Journal, first published by Benjamin Russell and William Warden in Boston, 1784. The publishers changed the paper’s name to Columbian Centinal to reflect their project taking on more national news, rather than Massachusetts-specific content; the first issue under that title was published on June 16th, 1790. The Centinel was fiercely Federalist and feuded with its rival, the anti-Federalist Boston Chronicle from 1790 to 1793. The Centinel had the largest subscription base of any newspaper in Boston in the years after the Revolution, and successfully reported on the Napoleonic Wars in Europe as well as national and local news.
As Federalism dissolved with the election of James Monroe in 1816, the influence of the Centinal waned. It merged with the New England Palladium in 1830, and then again in 1836 with the Boston Gazette. It was finally bought out by the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1840.