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THURLOW WEED, a noted journalist and politician, was born in Cairo, New York, November 15, 1797. He learned
the printer's trade at the age of twelve years, and worked at this calling for several years in various villages
in central New York. He served as quartermaster sergeant dnring the war of 1812. In 1818 he established the "Agriculturist,"
at Norwich, New York, and became editor of the "Anti Masonic Enquirer," at Rochester, in 1826. In the
same year he was elected to the legislature and re-elected in 1830, when he located in. Albany, New York, and there
started the "Evening Journal," and conducted it in opposition to the Jackson administration and the nullification
doctrines of Calhoun. He became an adroit party manager, and was instrumental in promoting the nominations of Harrison,
Taylor and Scott for the presidency. In 1856 and in 1860 he threw his support to W. H. Seward, but when defeated
in his object, he gave cordial support to Fremont and Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln preveiled upon him to visit the various
capitals of Europe, where he proved a valuable aid to the administration in moulding the opinions of the statesmen
of that continent favorable to the cause of the Union.
Mr. Weeds connection with the "Evening Journal" was severed in 1862, when he settled in New York, and
for a time edited the "Commercial Advertiser." In x868 he retired from active life. His "Letters
from Europe and the West Indies," published in 1866, together with some interesting "Reminiscences,"
published in the "Atlantic Monthly," in 1870, an autobiography, and portions of an extensive correspondence
will be of great value to writers of the political history of the United States, Mr. Weed died in New York, November
22, 1882.
FROM:
A Biographical Record
Of Schuyler County, New York
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
New York and Chicago 1903.
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