Nathaniel Willis (1755-1831)
Nathaniel Willis may refer to: * Nathaniel Willis (1755–1831), American newspaperman in Boston, Virginia and Ohio * Nathaniel Willis (1780–1870), American editor and publisher in Boston and Maine * Nathaniel Parker Willis Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis,Baker, 3 was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfello ...

Nathaniel Willis (1755–1831)
Nathaniel Willis (1755–1831) was a publisher and editor in the late 18th century. He participated in the Boston Tea Party in 1773. He issued the ''Independent Chronicle'' (1776–1784) and the ''American Herald'' in Boston, Massachusetts, and worked for some years with Edward Eveleth Powars as "Powars & Willis." "In 1784 he sold his interest in the "Independent Chronicle," and became one of the pioneer journalists of the unsettled West. He removed first to Winchester, Virginia, where he published a paper for a short time; then to Shepardstown, where he also published a paper; and thence in 1790 to Martinsburg, Virginia, where he founded the ''Potomac Guardian'' and edited it till 1796. In that year he went to Chillicothe, Ohio, and established the ''Scioto Gazette,'' the first newspaper in what was then known as the Northwestern Territory. He was printer to the government of the territory, and afterwards held an agency in the Post Office Department. He bought and cultivate ...
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Nathaniel Willis (1780–1870)
Nathaniel Willis (1780–1870) was an editor and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in the 19th century. He established the '' Eastern Argus'' and the '' Boston Recorder'' newspapers, and ''The Youth's Companion'' magazine. Biography Willis was born in Boston in 1780 to newspaperman Nathaniel Willis (1755–1831). In 1787 he moved to "Winchester, irginia and was employed in newspaper office, and subsequently at Martinsburg, irginia on the ''Potomac Guardian''". Young Nathaniel was put to work at once in folding papers and setting types. At Martinsburg he used to ride post, with tin horn and saddle-bags, delivering papers to scattered subscribers in the thinly settled country. At the age of fifteen young Nathaniel returned to Boston and entered the office of the ''Independent Chronicle''. He also found time, while in Boston, to drill with the "Fusiliers". In 1803, invited by a Maine congressman and other gentlemen of the Republican Party, he went to Portland, aine ...
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