A writer (later a Rock County resident) first commenced writing for the press in the Providence Gazette, in a series of articles against the then-pending Missouri Compromise.

The evidence

• “He first commenced writing for the press in 1820, in the Providence G-azette, in a series of articles against the then pending Missouri Compromise, which attracted general attention. From that time onward, he wrote for various periodicals, as he felt constrained to do, on the living issues of the day — religious, moral and political.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/11-rock-county-ch05-press-institutions-tragedy.md, PDF p. 421 / book p. 425

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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