Maturin Murray Ballou
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Maturin Murray Ballou was an American writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial, was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe, and wrote numerous
Portrait of Ballou, 1852
Ballou's Pictorial, January 12, 1856
Fanny Campbell, 1844
Frederick Gleason
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Frederick Gleason was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-nineteenth century. He is best known for establishing the popular illustrated weekly Gleason's Pictorial, at the time an innovati
Maturin Murray Ballou
…published the weekly newspaper Bay State Democrat. Writing under the pseudonym Lieutenant Murray, Ballou authored popular novels which were published by Frederick Gleason starting around 1845, such as The Gipsey, or, the Robbers of Naples: a Story of Love and Pride. He also wrote stories for The Flag of Our Union. In…
Portrait of Frederick Gleason, wood-engraving, 1852.