[2][4][5][1][6] According to William Bayard Hale, the press was the first west of the Allegheny Mountains that could print a double-page form (one side of a whole sheet) at one impression.

[7][8] It was reported that a letter intended for James Wilson was mistakenly received by another man of the same name, who opened it and found a $580 check from Nicholas Biddle, the Bank's president.

[16] Control of the paper passed in 1837 to Robert M. Riddle,[17] who would later be Whig mayor of Pittsburgh and editor of the Commercial Journal.

[19] The last editor-proprietor of the Advocate, Judge Thomas H. Baird, who took over from Parkin in 1843,[20] sold the paper a year later to be merged with the Gazette.

[22] In his farewell address, Baird wrote, "Thus two of the oldest papers in the Western country will be coalesced in the support of Henry Clay and the American system.