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Weed, Thurlow 1797-1882
Journalist; born in Cairo, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1797; became an orphan in early childhood, with a very scant school education; learned the printer's trade.
When fifteen years of age he entered the army as a volunteer, serving throughout the War of 1812 as quartermaster-sergeant; at the age of twenty-one began the publication of a newspaper, the Agriculturist, at Norwich, N. Y. Two years later he founded the Onondaga county Republican.
He was unsuccessful, and worked as chbishop Hughes and Bishop McIlvaine, under a commission from the national government, to endeavor to prevent foreign recognition of the Confederacy.
On his return he settled in New York City, where he edited the Commercial Advertiser till ill-health caused his retirement in 1867.
He published Letters from Europe and the West Indies, and Reminiscences in the Atlantic monthly in 1870.
He died in New York City, Nov. 22, 1882.
His Autobiography was published in Boston in 1833.
Thurlow Weed.