Thurlow weed autobiography for kids

Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) was a New York newspaper publisher and Anti-Masonic, Whig, and later Republican politician. Born into poverty in the hamlet of Acra, Weed apprenticed as a young child in the printing industry.

Thurlow weed autobiography for kids

He eventually launched five influential political newspapers in New York State, including the Norwich Agriculturist, Onondaga Republican, Rochester Daily Telegraph, and Anti-Masonic Enquirer. His last paper, the Albany Evening Journal, played an important role in the political campaign of William H.

Seward who became Governor of New York State. Using the power of the pen to sway opinions of his readership, Weed was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison (1840), Henry Clay (1844), Zachary Taylor (1848), Winfield Sc