Reminiscences and Recollections of Brick Pomeroy: A True Story for Boys and Girls of Any Age (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Reminiscences and Recollections of Brick Pomeroy: A True Story for Boys and Girls of Any Age
During the past twenty years a very large number of men and women, and especially of poor boys, have personally or by letter asked me to write a book in which would be narrated of the labors and experiences of that which has indeed been a most eventful life. I comply with their request, not to lift the subject of these chapters into position for abuse or criticism but with an earnest desire that what I write, all of truth and experiences of a severe struggle for existence, may be the means of helping poor boys and working men to shun rocks on which many rush to ruin, and to better their condition for the happiness that follows earnest efforts and a preservation of one's self from dissipation.
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Nonsense, Or Hits and Criticisms of the Follies of the Day
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Marcus Mills Pomeroy was an American printer, newspaper editor, publisher, propagandist, politician, and humorist.
Background
He was born on December 25, 1833 in Elmira, New York, United States, the son of Hunt Pomeroy, a practical watchmaker, and a descendant of Eltweed Pomeroy who settled in Dorchester, Massachussets, in 1630. His mother, Orlina Rebecca White, daughter of Dr. Amos Gates White of Orange County, a prominent descendant of Revolutionary stock, died when he was but two, and at her request the child was brought up in her brother's family.
He was reared to hard labor and adversity, and was taught rigid economy from the first. In his youth he helped his uncle in the village smithy, did the usual chores about the farm, and lived the pioneer farm life of that day. In April 1850 he set out from home, and in true journeyman-printer fashion, tramped to Corning, New York, where he began his apprenticeship on the Corning Journal.
Education
There is no information about his education.
Career
After some years of traveling from one printing office to another, he returned to Corning, established his first paper, the Sun. Soon afterward he moved to Athens and in March 1857, with a total cash capital of $20. 29, moved family and baggage to Wisconsin, where he started the Horicon Argus.
After some journeyman's work in Milwaukee, and Washington (including some early political experience), he returned to Wisconsin and in 1860 established the paper that was later to make him nationally famous, the La Crosse Democrat. From 1860 to 1866 he engineered the Democrat through poverty, prejudice, and political bitterness; his closest friend was the sheriff. The circulation of the paper grew from twenty-seven copies in 1866 to 100, 000 in 1868.
In New York that year for the political convention, with Tweed's encouragement, Pomeroy published the New-York Democrat, and later a weekly called Pomeroy's Democrat, but the daily languished after Seymour's defeat, and Pomeroy sold it to Tweed (1870), although he continued the adverse struggle with the weekly. In 1873 he moved to Chicago, continuing the Democrat there; and from 1876 to 1880 he was actively engaged in organization work for the Greenback cause, organizing some four thousand clubs. Later he again returned to La Crosse to meet reverses in his paper there.
He went to Colorado, where he regained even a greater fortune that he had lost through his New York journalistic ventures by organizing and promoting the Atlantic-Pacific Railway Tunnel, of which he became president, with offices in New York, in 1890. Here, too, he published a general news monthly called Advance Thought, and from the offices of the Advance Thought Publishing Company issued many pamphlets and books.
In his books he collected both the humorous sketches from his various papers and the sentiment and fireside musings, strongly tinged with moral preachments so characteristic of his day. His six most popular books were: Sense (1868); Nonsense (1868); Gold-Dust (1871); Brick-Dust (1871); Our Saturday Nights (1870).
He died in Brooklyn, May 30, 1896.
Achievements
Marcus Mills Pomeroy was a famous American journalist and humorous writer, the main core of his sucess was that his journalism was sensational, intensely personal, and independent. By its vividness, its personal combativeness, and political partisanship, it gained national notoriety. He founded Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat. His chief publications are: "Gold Dust"; "Brick Dust"; "Perpetual Money".
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Politics
He was essentially a Jeffersonian Democrat at heart, and was ever a belligerent champion for the people, particularly the "under-dog. "
Connections
On January 26, 1854, he was married to Anna Amelia Wheeler. He was divorced by his first wife and married Mrs. Louise M. Thomas of Cleveland. He married Emma Stimson on September 2, 1876.
