History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . n, his mother sent to after he was apprenticed to Moses Short, ofHaverhill, cabinet-maker, but, becoming home-sick,was permitted to return to his old friend, Mr. Bart-lett, in Newburyport, where, in the autumn of 1818,he was apprenticed to Ephram W. Allen, editor andproprietor of the NewbunjpnrI Herald, to learn theprinters trade. On the 18th of October he entered onan apprenticeship of seven years, during which hismind rapidly strengthened and improved in the liter-a
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . n, his mother sent to after he was apprenticed to Moses Short, ofHaverhill, cabinet-maker, but, becoming home-sick,was permitted to return to his old friend, Mr. Bart-lett, in Newburyport, where, in the autumn of 1818,he was apprenticed to Ephram W. Allen, editor andproprietor of the NewbunjpnrI Herald, to learn theprinters trade. On the 18th of October he entered onan apprenticeship of seven years, during which hismind rapidly strengthened and improved in the liter-ary atmosphere about him. Ho wrote not only forthe Herald, on which he was employed, but for theSalem Oazettt and other papers. In 1825, at the closeof his apprenticeship, he established the Free Pret$ill Newburyport, which proved a failure, and in 1827he bccainc editor of a total abstinence paper in Bos-ton, called the Xiilional Jhilnuthrnphl. The nextyear he went to Bennington, Vermont, as editor ofthe Journal of the Tiinef, and from thence to Baiti- Imore, ill 1829, to edit the Genius of Uniremal lunan-. n^-
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