Biographies

Results 351-400 of 553

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.

Maxwell

Publisher of The American Eagle (1817-18) at Shepherdstown with one Harper (202).

McKennie

Publisher of the Palladium of Liberty (1818-19) at Warrenton with James Caldwell (071).

Meriwether Jones

Printer to the Commonwealth (1798-1804); also publisher of The Examiner (1798-1804) at Richmond, initially with John Dixon Jr. (141), of The Press (1799-1800) at Richmond with Alexander MacRae (299), John H. Foushee (170), and James Lyon (274); and of Norfolk's Commercial Register (1802-03) with Wm. W. Worsley (462); brother of Skelton Jones (243).

Michael Hagen

Printer who died in Eichmond in 1824.

Michael Conrad

Non-resident proprietor of bookselling firms in Norfolk (1803-10) & Petersburg (1803-11).

Michael Flanagan

Journeyman printer in Virginia (1817-27) who died in Richmond in June 1827.

Michael Smith

Publisher of two books dealing with the War of 1812, one in 1814 from the Richmond press of Samuel Pleasants (331) and a second in 1815 from that of Arthur G. Booker (041).

Miles Hunter

Publisher of the Virginia Gazette and Petersburg Intelligencer (1786-88) with William Prentis (340); previously a journeyman printer in the Williamsburg office of John Dixon Sr. (140) and William Hunter Jr. (231), and in the Richmond office of James Hayes (207).

Minor

Proprietor of a Richmond job-printing firm (1809-10) with Thomas P. Manson (278).

Nathan Pollard

Proprietor of the Franklin Press in Richmond (1820-28), so publisher of the Virginia Literary and Evangelical Magazine (1820-28) and The Family Visitor (1822-28) in conjunction with the Rev. John Holt Rice (354).

Nathaniel Baldwin

Publisher of The Potomak Guardian (1798) at Martinsburg with Nathaniel Willis (449).

Nathaniel Charter

Journeyman printer working in Richmond (1809-10) who became both a major merchant in the city and an alderman on the Common Council.

Nathaniel Hickman

Partner to one Hazzard (208) in a Philadelphia publishing and bookselling firm (1820-22) that conducted a branch store in Petersburg (1820-21).

Nathaniel McLaughlin

Philadelphia-based printer associated with John L. Cook (105) in publishing the Virginia Apollo (1807) at Petersburg; also operated a paper mill there (1807-08) with brother his William (295).

Nathaniel Rounsavell

Publisher of the Alexandria Herald (1811-22), initially with John Corse (106) and then with Henry Pittman (327).

Nathaniel Willis, Jr.

Apprentice in the Virginia offices of his father, Nathaniel Willis Sr. (449), before 1796; later publisher of the nationally-popular Boston Recorder and Youth's Companion weeklies.

Nathaniel Willis, Sr.

Printer and publisher of Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser (1788-89) with Henry Willcocks (444) and Matthias Bartgis (024); then of Willis's Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser (1790), which moved to Shepherdstown as The Potowmac Guardian and Berkeley Advertiser (1790-92) and then to Martinsburg as The Potomak Guardian (1792-99), briefly with Nathaniel Baldwin (018); father of Nathaniel Willis, Jr. (450).

Nicholas Hingston

Engraver in Georgetown (1795) and Alexandria (1798-1812).

Nicholas Bierly Madera

Publisher of The Monongalia Spectator at Morgantown (1816-19) with William McGranahan (276) and Ralph Berkshire (032), and later of The North Western Journal (1822) with James M. Barbour (020) there.

Patrick Roche

Bookbinder in Richmond (1815-19).

Patrick McIntyre

Publisher of the True American (1800-03) and of The Washingtonian (1808-40) at Leesburg.

Pearson Moore

Printer in the Clarksburg office of Forbes Britton (053), Gideon Butler (067), and Alexander G. McRae (300).

Peter

Enslaved pressman in Richmond office of Thomas Nicolson (315) in 1783.

Peter Isler

Printer and publisher of Independent Register (1804-05) at Winchester with Joseph Harmer (201); also brother-in-law of William A. Dromgoole (149), later his partner elsewhere.

Peter Cottom

Bookselling entrepreneur and publisher, at first with John A. Stewart (401) in Alexandria and Fredericksburg, then alone in Richmond and Lynchburg; brother of Richard Cottom (108).

Peter Fabre

Bookseller and stationer in Norfolk from about 1805 until 1819.

Peter Kendall

Apprentice in the Staunton Gazette office of William Throckmorton (415) in 1794.

Peter Klipstine

Publisher of The Virginia Reformer and Herald of the Valley (1819) at Winchester as partner to one Russell (369).

Philip Dougherty

Manager of the Richmond bookstore of Jacob Johnson (237) and Benjamin Warner (429).

Philip DuVal

Publisher of the Staunton Observer (1814) with Joseph Butler (069), of the Richmond Daily Compiler (1814, 1816-19) with Leroy Anderson (011) and Daniel Trueheart (420), and of the Virginia Argus (1815) with John McDonald Burke (065).

Philip Rootes

Founder and publisher of The Virginia Star (1795) at Petersburg and The Impartial Observer (1797) at Shepherdstown with Charles Blagrove (036).

Philip Temple

Publisher of the Fredericksburgh News-Letter (1801-02).

Philip Williams

Publisher of The Woodstock Herald (1817-22) with Benjamin L. Bogan (037).

Pittman

Publisher of the Genius of Liberty (1799) at Fredericksburg with Robert Mercer (301).

Purdie, Alexander Jr.

Printer in the Richmond office (1785-96) of Thomas Nicolson (315), both as apprentice and journeyman; son of Alexander Purdie, Sr. (345).

Rev. Ambrosius Henkel

Publisher of numerous German language imprints issued from the family-owned Henkel Press in New Market (1806-17); publisher of the Virginische Volksberichter und Neumarket Wochen-schrift there (1807-09) with father Paul (217) and brother Solomon (218) Henkel.

Rev. Andreas Henkel

Printer and engraver in the family-owned Henkel Press (1808-11) at New Market.

Rev. Andrew Baker Davidson

Publisher of religious tracts at New Market (1811-12) from press of Ambrose Henkel (214) and proprietor of Theological Printing Office in Harrisonburg (1813-15) with George Bourne (043), employing Lawrence Wartmann (431).

Rev. Benjamin Allen

Publisher of The Layman's Magazine (1815-16) at Martinsburg with John Alburtis (004).

Rev. David Barrow

Baptist minister who published a single religious pamphlet in Norfolk in 1798.

Rev. David Henkel

Printer and engraver in the family-owned Henkel Press (1809-12) at New Market.

Rev. George Bourne

Publisher of religious tracts in the Shenandoah Valley (1813-15); proprietor of Theological Printing Office in Harrisonburg (1813-15) with Rev. Andrew B. Davidson (116) and employer there of Lawrence Wartmann (431).

Rev. George Cook Sedgwick

Publisher of Baptist hymnal through Fredericksburg press of Green & Cady in 1815.

Rev. James Muir, D.D.

Publisher of his own religious works (1793-1818) from presses in Alexandria and elsewhere.

Rev. John Asplund

Publisher of religious tracts issued from presses in Norfolk and Richmond in the 1790s.

Rev. John Courtney, Jr.

Journeyman printer for James Lyon (274) in Richmond and John McArthur (285) in Staunton in 1800; later a job-printer in Richmond partnered with John Dixon Jr. (141).

Rev. John Holt Rice

Publisher of a series of religious periodicals (1815-27) via the Richmond presses of Arthur G. Booker (041), John Warrock (430), William Waller Gray (193), and Nathan Pollard (335).

Rev. Lorenzo Dow

Methodist itinerant who published religious tracts in Richmond and Lynchburg in 1804 and in Lynchburg again in 1812; also the brother-in-law of Benjamin Dolbeare (142).

Rev. Mason Locke Weems, M.D.

Itinerant bookseller and publisher (1791-1825) operating out of his home in Dumfries; father of Jesse E. Weems (434).

Rev. Paulus Henkel

Publisher of many German language religious tracts issued from the family-owned Henkel Press in New Market (1806-25); publisher of the short-lived Virginische Volksberichter und Neumarket Wochenschrift (1807-09) with sons Ambrose (214) and Solomon (218) Henkel.

Results 351-400 of 553

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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