Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

              THE PRINTER EDITOR
How the Early Days' Print Shop Men Had To Work Their Way. Difficulties They Encountered.
When he came to Wisconsin in 1850, from Ohio, A. T. Glaze had already served time as a printing office apprentice. He was skilled in any and all departments. of printing office work. A severe run of scarlet fever compelled him to abandon the course at Heidelburg after two and one-half of the four years, and thus equipped mentally and mechanically, he came to Fond du Lac and entered the office of the Journal, established by Henning & Hooker, in 1846, but at this time owned by Edward Beeson. The early day work, editorial as well as mechanical, of Mr. Glaze, may be seen in the files of the old Journal in the rooms of the public library. At this time competent printers were not numerous and material could not be obtained as now, so the services of Mr. Glaze were often in demand in the region round about, in starting new papers. He was called even to Oshkosh, more than once, to make rollers, cover tympon frames of hand presses, cutting rules and leads for first forms and adjusting them, and by no means a pleasant job, as we had no rule or lead cutter, the former being cut with a file and the latter with a knife. It may be of interest to many to state the fact that the present Oshkosh North¬ western was started as a weekly by the Messenger boys and Mr. Glaze made the rollers and helped them to adjust the forms. He made two or three sets of rollers for the old Oshkosh Courier, owned by Reed & Nevitt. He went to Berlin once, overland, to assist in putting the Marquette Mercury afloat. There was no Green Lake county then—it was part of Marquette county. After this he went there to help Uri Carruth with the Spectator, and made the trip on the steamboat Badger State, Capt. W. A. Knapp. Early in 1862, he made rollers and assisted A. P. Mapes in launching a paper that not long after was thrown into the street by som*e of the men of Ed. Daniel's First Wisconsin Cavalry for alleged disloyalty. He was once sent for to assist in putting afloat a paper at Kingston, but sent Walworth Chapel to do the work. The well known early day country lawyer, Rufus P. Eaton, by some means got hold of the idea that there ought to be a paper at Pequot Village, near what is now Winnebago Park, got his old press from Edwards, at Oshkosh, and maybe half enough type, and sent for Mr. Glaze to help him out. But before getting things in shape to start his foolish enterprise, sold the outfit to Flavins Josephus Mills, and it went to Sheboygan and into the office of the Lake Shore Journal. In 1852 Mr. Beeson sold the Journal to M. J. Thomas, son-in-law of John B. Macy, and resulted in the change to Fond du Lac Union to aid in the election of Mr. Macy to congress. The Journal was dormant for a while, but was put afloat again by Kingman Flint, son of Judge Flint, and S. D.