Francisco Atanasio Domínguez

Background

Francisco was born in Mexico City, Mexico about 1740.

Education

For one year Dominguez attended Adams School.

Career

At fourteen Dominguez set out to learn the printing trade in the office of the Columbian Centinel, and some time later worked temporarily for the Boston Transcript where (he said) he nearly lost his job for “not coming to work on Christmas day. ”

His association with Catholic journalism commenced with The Jesuit, or Catholic Sentinel, published after 1829 by George Pepper.

When this paper was reorganized (1832), he worked on it with H. L. Devereaux, in company with whom he later began (1836) the publication of the Pilot.

He also supported “Father Mathew” in an energetic crusade for temperance reform.

The great Boston fire (1872) destroyed his publishing plant and church goods store, plunging him deeply into debt.

His bank also failed during the panic that followed.

Archbishop Williams purchased the Pilot, in 1876, to help pay the bank’s depositors, and two years later Donahoe started Donahoe’s Magazine, a monthly periodical devoted to Catholic and Irish-American interests, which circulated widely and published work by such writers as Ethna Carberry and Louise Imogene Gurney.

Achievements

• Dominguez was the owner and editor of the weekly newspaper "The Pilot".

Works

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  • The Missions of New Mexico, 1776

    (approx 8x11x2 size)

Politics

As a citizen Dominguez was a prominent supporter of the Democratic party.

Connections

Dominguez was married twice, first, on November 23, 1836 he married Kate Griffin, who died in 1852, and second, on April 17, 1853 Annie E. Davis.

Second wife:

Annie E. Davis

First wife:

Kate Griffin