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See also:SAMUEL See also:BOWLES (1826–1878)
, See also:American journalist, was See also:born in See also:Springfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 9th of See also:February 1826
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He was the son of See also:Samuel See also:Bowles (1779–1851) of the same See also:city, who had established the weekly Springfield Republican in 1824
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The daily issue was begun in 1844, as an evening newspaper, afterwards becoming a See also:morning See also:journal
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To its service Samuel Bowles, junior, devoted his See also:life (with the exception of a brief See also:period during which he was in See also:charge of a daily in See also:Boston), and he gave the See also:paper a See also:national reputation by the vigour, incisiveness and See also:independence of its editorial utterances, and the concise and convenient arrangement of its See also:local and See also:general See also:news-See also:matter
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During the controversies affecting See also:slavery and resulting in the See also:Civil See also:War, Bowles supported, in general, the Whig and Republican parties, but in the period of Reconstruction under See also:President See also: |
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