Boston Evening Traveller

The Boston Evening Traveller was launched on April 1, 1845, by Reverend George Punchard and Deacon Ferdinand Andrews.

[1] In June 1845, Roland Worthington, a former member of the Boston Daily Advertiser's business department, joined the paper as publisher.

[2] Compared to other papers in Boston in the 1840s, the Traveller was notable for its significantly lower retail price.

The paper's shift to the Republican Party led to the departure of Ferdinand Andrews, who supported Daniel Webster and the Cotton Whigs.

Bowles left the Evening Traveler without notice on August 10, 1857, and returned to Springfield, Massachusetts.

He remained with the Evening Traveller until 1885, when he accepted the position of chief of editorial writers for The Boston Globe.

[13] In 1928, the new owners moved the paper away from Republican politics by dropping the editorial page and replacing it with a "People's Forum".