The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register

The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register are combined daily newspapers under common ownership in Wheeling, [West Virginia], and are the flagship publications of Ogden Newspapers. The Intelligencer is published weekday mornings and Saturdays, while the News-Register is published weekday afternoons and Sundays.

The Intelligencer

Founded as the Wheeling Intelligencer in August 1852 by Eli B. Swearingen and Oliver Taylor, The Intelligencer is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the state of West Virginia. The paper was initially established as a means to promote Winfield Scott and the Whig Party in the 1852 [United States presidential election].