Nathan Hale (journalist)

Nathan Hale (journalist)
Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale (16 August 1784 – 9 February 1863) was an American journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature.[1]

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Life and career

Born in Westhampton, Massachusetts, Hale graduated from Williams College in 1804, and then was a tutor for two years at Phillips Exeter Academy. He moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1810, and practiced law for four years.[2] He began to co-edit The Weekly Messenger in 1813 and founded the Boston Daily Advertiser that same year, serving as editor and publisher until his death in 1863. Hale was one of the founders of the North American Review in 1815 and the Christian Examiner in 1823. In 1842 he was the founding editor of the short-lived The Boston Miscellany. Hale was active in promoting industrial improvement, especially the Boston and Albany Railroad and diverting the Lake Cochituate for potable water in the Back Bay, the Neck and the South Cove.[3]

His alliance to the Federalist Party continued until its dissolution, after which Hale sided with the Whig Party and eventually the Republican Party. He opposed the Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Bill. Hale served in the Massachusetts State Legislature.

Hale was an active member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and also of the Massachusetts Historical Society.[2]

Publications

He published a map of New England in 1825, and a series of stereotype maps on a plan of his own invention in 1830, being the first maps with names printed in page with type made by the founders. He also published Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (Boston, 1821), and numerous pamphlets on the practicability of railroads, on canals, and other topics.[2]

Family

He married Sarah Preston Everett (sister of Edward Everett) in 1816.[2] Their children included Sarah Everett Hale, Nathan Hale, Jr. (12 November 1818 in Boston - 9 January 1871),[2] Lucretia Peabody Hale, Edward Everett Hale, Charles Hale, Alexander Hale, and Susan Hale.[4] Nathan, Sr., was also the nephew of executed spy Nathan Hale.

References

  1. ^ Colby, Frank Moore; Talcott Williams; Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922). The New International Encyclopedia. Dodd, Mead and company
  2. ^ a b c d e Wikisource-logo.svg "Hale, John". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892. 
  3. ^ The Century (1885). Edward Everett Hale. The Century Co., Volume 29, p. 339
  4. ^ Smith College. Hale Family papers. Biographical note.



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