Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

444 SPRINGFIELD, 1636-1886.
At a meeting of the manufacturers, farmers, and merchants of the
town, held in the town-hall, May 18, 1832, Justice Willard in the chair,
and Stephen C. Beniis secretar3% resolutions favoring a continuation
of a protective tariff were passed. Another meeting at Warriner's
Inn, May 31, with the landlord in the chair, and Samuel Bowles
secretary, passed resolutions against pedlers, as it was considered
" fraught with injurious consequences to the regular business of the
community and tends to the encouragement of bad habits and impo-
sition." The committee to suppress this practice consisted of James
Brewer, James Wells, A. G. Tannatt, Francis M. Carew, and Stephen
0. Russell.
Springfield was not wanting in newspapers at this time. The
" Eepublican " was a great success as a stanch anti-Jackson sheet.
It absorbed the " Hampden Journal," started in 1807 ])y Thomas
Dickman. The "Hampden Whig" was started in February,
1830, by John B. Eldredge, who sold out to E. I). Beach, in
1835. The " Springfield C4azette " Avas started in September, 1831,
with G. W. Callender, Henry Kirkham, and Lewis Briggs, proprie-
tors. William Hyde was editor In 1832 Callender and Kirkham
withdrew, and the "Gazette" was published by Mr. Briggs and
Josiah Hooker, the latter being editor as well. The " Hampden In-
telligencer " had started up in 1831 as an anti-Masonic paper, but was
short-lived. In 1840 Mr. Beach, then editor of the " Hampden
Post," was nominated by the Loco Foco party as county treasurer, but
was defeated. In 1840 William Stowe became editor of the " Spring-
field Gazette."
Dr. Joshua Frost was buried from ]Mr. Peabody's church in April,
1832. He was a man of fine education and admirable character.
He was a model village inan, being always present at town-meetings,
and ready to bear his share of public burdens. Dr. Frost gradu-
ated at Harvard, and was State senator in 182G. He was sixty-five
when he died. The year following (August 25, 1833) Col. Roswell
Lee passed away, and with him a prominent actor in local affairs.