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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 2: first experiences in New York city-the New Yorker (search)
States in 1828 was estimated at 863, with an annual issue of over 68,000,000, while the census of 1840 showed 1,403, with a yearly issue of 195,838,073 copies. New York State reported 161 in 1828, and 245 in 1840. But he found that the most distinguished classes of society are rarely led to engage in these undertakings ; and that the journalists of the United States are usually placed in a very humble position, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of mind. When John (afterward Lord) Campbell eked out his income in London, in the first years of the nineteenth century, by reporting parliamentary debates, the calling was so discreditable that he concealed his avocation from his fellow law students. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes let it be understood that it would have hurt him professionally had it been known that he was a literary man when he began writing. Of the literary taste of New York city in 1828, a writer in the Picture of New York said: Most of the periodical works attemp