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SAMUEL BOWLES (1826–1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 344 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL BOWLES (1826–1878)  ,
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American journalist, was born in
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Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 9th of
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February 1826 . He was the son of
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Samuel Bowles (1779–1851) of the same city, who had established the weekly Springfield Republican in 1824 . The daily issue was begun in 1844, as an evening newspaper, afterwards becoming a
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morning journal . To its service Samuel Bowles, junior, devoted his
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life (with the exception of a brief period during which he was in charge of a daily in Boston), and he gave the paper a
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national reputation by the vigour, incisiveness and independence of its editorial utterances, and the concise and convenient arrangement of its
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local and general
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news-
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matter . During the controversies affecting
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slavery and resulting in the
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Civil War, Bowles supported, in general, the Whig and Republican parties, but in the period of Reconstruction under President Grant his paper represented anti-administration or " Liberal Republican " opinions, while in the disputed election of 1876 it favoured the claims of Tilden, and subsequently became
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independent in politics . Bowles died at Springfield on the 16th of
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January 1878 . During his lifetime, and subsequently, the Republican office was a sort of school for young journalists, especially in the matter of pungency and conciseness of style, one of his
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maxims being " put it all in the first
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paragraph." Bowles published two books of travel, Across the Continent (1865) and The
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Switzerland of
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America (1869), which were combined into one
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volume under the title Our New West (1869) . He was succeeded as publisher and editor-in-chief of the Republican by his son Samuel Bowles (b . 1851) . A eulogistic Life and Times of Samuel Bowles (2 vols., New York, 1885), by George S . Merriam, is virtually a
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history of American
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political movements after the compromise of 1850 .

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