found:Email from AP Corporate Archives, Aug. 28, 2023(Associated Press; est. 1846 by Moses Yale Beach to share costs of transmitting news of the Mexican War to New York via boat, pony and telegraph; the cooperative venture initially included five papers: the Sun, the Journal of Commerce, the Courier and Enquirer, the Herald, and the Express; completely distinct from the Harbor News Association, which was formed in 1848 by Beach and others to share the costs of a news boat to collect marine intelligence in the waters around New York)