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Biography of Samuel BowlesName: Samuel BowlesBirth Date: February 9, 1826 Death Date: January 18, 1878 Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: businessman, editor Samuel Bowles The most noted member of an American newspaper family, Samuel Bowles (1826-1878) earned his reputation of fierce independence at a time when newspapers existed largely by means of partisan political support.Samuel Bowles was born in Springfield, Mass., on Feb. 9, 1826, seventeen months after his father had founded the Weekly Republican. His father came from New England stock dating back to 1640. His mother was a descendant of Miles Standish. Even tempered and possessed of a quick, incisive mind, young Sam grew up in an early rising, hard-working, religious household.Sam wanted to go to college, but at the age of 17 his father made him an office boy at the Republican. The elder Bowles wanted his son to be a printer, but Sam had neither the skill nor the inclination for it. He did, however, have the skill of persuasion. He talked his father into establishing the Daily Republican (March 27, 1844); his father agreed …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…weeks remaining to him, he put his affairs in order. He died on Jan. 16, 1878. Further Reading The best biography of Bowles is George S. Merriam's detailed, uncritical, and turgid account, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles (2 vols., 1885). Merriam drew from the pages of the Springfield Republican and from the personal correspondence of members of the Bowles family. Far less detailed and less laborious is Richard Hooker, The Story of an Independent Newspaper: One Hundred Years of the Springfield Republican (1924). Hooker drew chiefly from Merriam and the Republican, but also gathered odds and ends from minor sources to bring the Bowles family story up to 1915. Frank L. Mott, American Journalism: A History, 1690-1960 (3d ed. 1962), is recommended for general background.Merriam, George Spring, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, New York, The Century co., 1885.Weisner, Stephen G., Embattled Editor: The Life of Samuel Bowles, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. |