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Zachariah Poulson Jr. (1761-1844)

Description

Zachariah Poulson Jr. was born on 5 September 1761 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He followed his father into the printing trade, serving as the printer for the Pennsylvania Senate and publishing an almanac. In 1800 Poulson purchased the nation’s first daily newspaper, which he published in Philadelphia as Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser for nearly forty years.

Citations

"Account with Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 12 March 1802," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0041. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 37, 4 March–30 June 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 64.]

"Poulson, Zachariah," in James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1600-1689, Volume V: PickeringSumter (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 92–93.

Thomas Sully, Zachariah Poulson (portrait), The Library Company of Philadelphia.

Derek Strahan, "Zachariah Poulson House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," Lost New England (blog).

Zachariah "Zacharia" Poulson at Find a Grave.

Zachariah Poulson at FamilySearch.