Marriages and Deaths from The Springfield [MA] Republican - 1847

The Springfield Republican was established in 1824 by Samuel Bowles. It originally began as a weekly, but became a daily in 1844, under the guidance of Bowles's son, Samuel Bowles II. The Republican soon became one of New England's most respected and popular newspapers, due in no small part to its political commentary. The feisty Bowles was regarded as one of the country's great editors, despite being described as tyrannical by his enemies, of whom there were many. On his deathbed, Bowles said: "I may die but The Republican will live," and upon his death in 1877, his son took over the paper and ran it until 1915. Although absorbed by the Springfield Union-News in 1987, the paper does indeed live on to this day.

The original text is kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number MSS A 878.

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