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BOWLES, SAMUEL (1826–1878)

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BOWLES, See also:SAMUEL (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. He was the son of Samuel Bowles (1779–1851) of the same See also:city, who had established the weekly Springfield Republican in 1824. The daily issue was begun in 1844, as an evening newspaper, afterwards becoming a See also:morning See also:journal. 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. 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:Grant his paper represented See also:anti-See also:administration or " Liberal Republican " opinions, while in the disputed See also:election of 1876 it favoured the claims of See also:Tilden, and subsequently became See also:independent in politics. Bowles died at Springfield on the 16th of See also:January 1878. During his lifetime, and subsequently, the Republican See also:office was a sort of school for See also:young journalists, especially in the matter of pungency and conciseness of See also:style, one of his See also:maxims being " put it all in the first See also:paragraph." Bowles published two books of travel, Across the See also:Continent (1865) and The See also:Switzerland of See also:America (1869), which were combined into one See also:volume under the See also:title Our New See also:West (1869). He was succeeded as publisher and editor-in-See also:chief of the Republican by his son Samuel Bowles (b. 1851). A eulogistic Life and Times of Samuel Bowles (2 vols., New See also:York, 1885), by See also:George S. Merriam, is virtually a See also:history of American See also:political movements after the See also:compromise of 1850.

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