Biographies

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This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection. For more information, please see David Rawson Index of Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Hazzard

Partner to Nathaniel Hickman (220) in a Philadelphia publishing and bookselling firm (1820-22) that conducted a branch store in Petersburg (1820-21).

Hector MacAlester

Editor and Compiler for the official Virginia Gazette of Lord Dunmore (153) in 1775-76.

Henry Sherman

Bookbinder in Richmond office of Frederick Mayo (284) in 1820.

Henry Ashburn

Printer and publisher of the American Beacon (1815-36) at Norfolk with the brothers Hamilton (380) and William C. Shields (381); also son-in-law of Leroy Anderson (011).

Henry Blagrove

Prnter in Richmond (1812-14).

Henry Bowcock

Journeyman Printer who died in Williamsburg in February 1779.

Henry Hatton Gird II

Printer and publisher of Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette (1796-99), initially with its founder Ellis Price (342).

Henry Pace

Publisher of The Recorder or Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany (1801-03) at Richmond, in part with James Thomson Callender (075).

Henry Pittman

Publisher of the Alexandria Herald (1820-26), initially as a partner to Nathaniel Rounsavell (367), and of The Alexandrian (1820-21) in partnership with Douglas Thomson (413).

Henry Tutwiler

Publisher of a Presbyterian sermon in Harrisonburg in 1815.

Henry Willcocks

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser (1787-88) with Matthias Bartgis (024); then of the Virginia Centinel or Winchester Mercury (1788) with Richard Bowen (045); also an itinerant journeyman (1786-87) working in Richmond.

Herbert P. Gaines

Founder and publisher of the Kenhawa Spectator (1820-22) at Charleston.

Hines Brothers

Journeyman printers working in Winchester in 1810s.

Hiram Wiley

Bookbinder in Alexandria in 1813.

Hunter

Proprietor of the Charlestown Circulating Library (1820) as a partner to one Straith (405).

Ira Woodruff

Publisher of The Phenix (1803-04) at Staunton as successor to John Wise (455).

Isaac Collett

Printer in the office of the Winchester Gazette in 1808; then proprietor of the Republican Farmer (1808-1916) in Staunton from 1810 to 1823.

Isham Burch

Publisher of the Virginia Express (1803-05) at Fredericksburg, first with Samuel Chiles (092) and then with his brother, Elisha Burch (061).

J. Cochran

Co-proprietor of Richmond job-printing firm of J. & G. Cochran (1814-23) with G. Cochran (097), apparently his brother.

J. F. Archibald

Publisher of a single Episcopalian (Anglican) imprint in Winchester in 1816.

J. H. Lawton

Printer in the office of Solomon Henkel (218) at New Market in 1820.

J. Kyle

Partner in the firm of J. & D. Kyle (1801-06) with D. Kyle (255) selling the almanacs of Samuel Saur of Baltimore.

J. Shaw

Retail storekeeper in Alexandria selling books in 1816.

Jacob Grigg

Publisher of religious tracts in Richmond and Norfolk with Dover Baptist Association (1814).

Jacob Johnson

Philadelphia publisher and bookseller who directed a branch store in Richmond (1805-16), primarily with Benjamin Warner (429) as the firm of Johnson & Warner.

Jacob Smith

Journeyman printer living and working in Alexandria in 1800.

Jacob D. Dietrich

Publisher of Staunton Eagle (1807-10) and its ancillary Deutsche Virginier Adler (1807-09).

Jacob Haas

Publisher of the Lynchburg Press (1811-19) in partnership with John F. Lamb (259), Samuel Bransford (050), Samuel G. Dawson (131), and William Duffy (150), who was his successor.

Jacob Smith

Publisher of a Methodist sermon in Winchester in 1820.

James Ayres

An employee in the Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402).

James Bagnall

Apprentice and Journeyman Printer in Richmond office of William A. Rind (359).

James Cawte

Manager of the Alexandria bookstore of Robert Gray (190) in 1815.

James Kempe

Publisher of Republican Journal and Dumfries Weekly Advertiser (1795-96), briefly partner to Dr. Thomas Thornton (414) in the venture.

James Noble

Bookbinder in Fredericksburg (1813).

James A. Dillworth

Publisher of a religious biography through the press of Ananias Davisson (129) in 1820.

James Butler

Pressman in Alexandria office of Matthew Brown (057) and Samuel Snowden (393) in 1801.

James Caldwell

Printer of Winchester's Republican Constellation (1810-16) for Jonathan Foster (168) and publisher of Warrenton's Palladium of Liberty (1817-21) with an unnamed McKennie (291) as his partner (1818-19); also the brother of Joseph F. Caldwell (073).

James Carey

Apprentice in the Williamsburg office of Alexander Purdie (345) and John Dixon (140).

James Carey

Publisher of Richmond's first daily newspaper, The Virginia Gazette, and Richmond Daily Advertiser, in 1792; brother of Mathew Carey, the Philadelphia publishing entrepreneur.

James Clayton

Apprentice printer in the Williamsburg office of Joseph Royle (368) in 1764.

James D. Harrow

Printer and publisher of the Virginia Herald at Fredericksburg, first as partner (1817-18) to founder Timothy Green (194), then Independently (1820-51).

James Davis

Printer in the Williamsburg office of William Parks (321).

James Diament Westcott, Sr.

Publisher of The Times and Alexandria Advertiser (1797-99) with John V. Thomas (410); The Times and District of Columbia Daily Advertiser (1799-1802) with John Westcott Sr. (438), his father; and The Columbian Advertiser (1802) alone; later partner to James Lyon (274) in Georgetown and Richard Dinmore (139) in Washington; brother of John Westcott Jr. (439).

James Douglass

Stationer, blank-book manufacturer, and bookseller in Richmond (1818) and Alexandria (1818-28) in partnership with Archibald Douglass (145), probably his brother.

James Fitz-Randolph

Apprentice in the Alexandria office of Samuel Snowden (393), his uncle.

James Graham

Founder and sole publisher of the Lynchburg Star (1805-12).

James Hayes

Printer to the Commonwealth (1781-86) as partner to John Dunlap (152), and independent publisher of the semi-official Virginia Gazette or The American Advertiser (1781-86).

James Hunter

Bookseller and stationer in Norfolk from 1793 to 1795.

James Jay Pleasants; James J. Pleasants

Printer and clerk in the Richmond office of his uncle Samuel Pleasants (331) in the 1810s.

James Johnston Dixon

Bookbinder in Richmond (1813)

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This version of the Index of Virginia Printing was a gift from the estate of the site's creator, David Rawson. The content contained herein will not be updated, as it is part of the Library of Virginia's personal papers collection. For more information, please see David Rawson Index of Virginia Printing website. Accession 53067. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

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