Edward Eveleth Powars was a printer in
Boston
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and
Worcester, Massachusetts
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, in the late 18th century. He published the ''
Independent Chronicle
The ''Independent Chronicle'' (1776–1840) was a newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts. It originated in 1768 as ''The Essex Gazette'', founded by Samuel Hall (v.1–7) in Salem, and ''The New-England Chronicle'' (v.7–9) in Cambridge, before se ...
'' (1776–1779), the ''Boston Evening-Post'' (1781–1784), the ''
American Herald'' (1784–1790), and ''The Argus''. He worked with
Nathaniel Willis as "Powars & Willis."
In 1781 he kept his printing-office in Boston, at "the lower end of
State-Street, over Mr. Simon Eliot's
snuff-store". He moved to Worcester in 1788, "having been humiliatingly neglected ... for printing a free paper". By 1791 he had returned to Boston. Around 1796 he lived on Temple Street.
Around 1803 he worked "as a compositor in the office of Samuel Etheridge, in
Charlestown". In 1813 "he held the office of Messenger to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth."
[Buckingham. 1852][''Resolves of the General Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts passed at the sessions, in October 1812, and January 1813 published agreeably to a resolve of January 11, 1812.'']
He later became a traveling bookseller. He died on an expedition to the Western States.
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Powars, Edward Eveleth
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Businesspeople from Boston
19th century in Boston
18th century in Boston
American publishers (people)
American printers
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown