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Excerpt from Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 3: Second Series His school life was finished when he was about fif teen years oi age, and for a year he found employ ment in a commission store on Exchange street. He then decided to become a printer, being moved thereto by a belief that in this business he could have better opportunities for intellectual improvement. In 1842, Benjamin Kingsbury was publisher of the True Amer ican, which was the short-lived organ of the Tyler administration. Young Elwell entered the office of that paper, became an expert compositor, and soon began to try his hand as a contributor not only to the paper on which he was employed but to the two other daily papers of that time, the Advertiser and the Ar gus. He wrote anonymously, but his letters were so well considered and so neatly expressed that they were in every case promptly published. When the publica ti0n of the True American was suspended at the close of the administration it had supported Mr. Elwell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.