page_title: New York Evening Express
section_title: Publication history
hierarchical_section_title: New York Evening Express / Publication history
caption_attribution_description: Cyrus West Field (1819-1892)
context_page_description: The New York Evening Express was a 19th-century American newspaper published in New York City.
context_section_description: The Express began publication on June 20, 1836, as the New York Express, a Whig publication under the direction of James Brooks, formerly an editor of the Portland Advertiser in Maine, with the assistance of Brooks' younger brother Erastus Brooks (originally as their Washington correspondent).  Robert E. Hudson served at its initial commercial editor.  It was merged with Hudson's Prices Current and Shipping List upon its creation, and on November 1, 1836, merged with the Daily Advertiser founded in 1817 by Theodore Dwight, and thus referred to as the New York Daily Express.  William B. Townsend of the Advertiser became a part owner of the Express with James Brooks.
  When the Whig Party declined, the Express supported the Know Nothing movement, and then the Constitutional Union Party, followed by the Democrats.
  
  James Brooks remained editor-in-chief of the paper until his death in 1873, and in June 1877 Erastus gave over control to a group led by John Kelly (a boss of Tammany Hall) and Augustus Schell, though he still made contributions to the paper.  In late 1881 Cyrus West Field acquired the Express (which had a coveted New York Associated Press membership) and merged it into the New York Evening Mail, creating the New York Evening Mail and Daily Express.   The Evening Mail survived until 1924 (it dropped the "Express" part of its name completely by 1904).
caption: Cyrus W. Field (c. 1870) acquired the Express in December 1881 and merged it into the New York Evening Mail
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