Pioneer paper "The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature", was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, "The Louisville Daily Journal", began distribution in the city and, in 1832, absorbed "The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature". The "Journal" was an organ of the Whig Party, founded and edited by George D. Prentice, a New Englander who initially came to Kentucky to write a biography of Henry Clay. Prentice would edit the "Journal" for more than 40 years.