Edward Eveleth Powars

Edward Eveleth Powars was a printer in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He published the Independent Chronicle (1776–c.1779),[1][2] the Boston Evening-Post (1781–1784),[3] the American Herald (1784–1790), and The Argus. He worked with Nathaniel Willis as "Powars & Willis."[4]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1787; printed by Powars, Court Street, Boston, 1787 (State Library of Massachusetts)

In 1781 he kept his printing-office in Boston, at "the lower end of State-Street, over Mr. Simon Eliot's snuff-store".[5] He moved to Worcester in 1788, "having been humiliatingly neglected ... for printing a free paper".[6] By 1791 he had returned to Boston.[7] Around 1796 he lived on Temple Street.[8]

Around 1803 he worked "as a compositor in the office of Samuel Etheridge, in Charlestown".[9] In 1813 "he held the office of Messenger to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth."[10][11]

He later became a traveling bookseller. He died on an expedition to the Western States.[10]

References
  1. Library of Congress. Independent Chronicle, w., Sept. 19–Oct. 31, 1776.
  2. Library of Congress. The Independent Chronicle. And the Universal Advertiser, w., s.w., Nov. 7, 1776–Dec. 29, 1800+
  3. Library of Congress. The Boston Evening-Post: and the General Advertiser, w., Oct. 20, 1781–Jan. 10, 1784.
  4. Boston News Letter, and City Record, Sept. 23, 1826.
  5. Boston Evening Post, Dec. 8, 1781.
  6. New Hampshire Spy, Sept. 16, 1788.
  7. Herald of Freedom, July 1, 1791.
  8. Boston Directory, 1796.
  9. Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of Newspaper Literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, Volume 1. Redding and Co., 1852. Google books
  10. Buckingham. 1852
  11. 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.
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