Daniel Clement Colesworthy

Daniel Clement Colesworthy (14 July 1810 – 1 April 1893) was an American printer, bookseller, and poet.

[1] He became a printer, having served an apprenticeship in the office of Arthur Shirley, beginning at the age of 14.

[2] In June 1840, Colesworthy commenced the publication of a small semi-monthly paper call The Youth's Monitor, which he continued for about two years.

In 1841 he printed the first number of a weekly literary paper, the Portland Tribune, which he continued for four years and ten weeks, and in June, 1845, sold his interest in the paper to John Edwards, who was publisher of the Portland Bulletin.

[4] Colesworthy died in 1893 at his home, on Chestnut Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts, aged 82.