The Staten Island Leader is available from nyshistoricnewspapers.com
The “Staten Island Leader” was started in 1866 by Samuel Marsh, John G. Vaughn, and others, as a Democratic paper. It was sold to P. H. Gill, and after his death, was leased to William A. Suydam who ran it for a brief period; it was then purchased by Nicholas and John Macklin. The 1882 directory shows P. H. Gill as editor and proprietor, office, Wright near Water Street, Stapleton. In 1886 it was published on Saturdays. In 1893 Mrs. P. H. Gill had an important dry goods store at 246 Bay Street, established in 1882. This publication is continued at present by Browne & Felton at 530 Bay Street, Stapleton. The paper is in its sixty-fourth year.