[3] Women's rights and suffrage advocates Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton cited Bouvier for contributing to passage in Pennsylvania of the Married Woman's Property Act of 1848; suffragist Alice Paul cited him also for his commitment to expanding women's property rights.

[6] John Bouvier was apprenticed to age 21 to a Philadelphia Quaker, Benjamin Johnson,[6] a printer and bookseller who had known the family while traveling in France.

[8] In 1810, he married Elizabeth Widdifield (1789–1870), by whom he had one daughter, astronomical writer and cookbook author Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson (1811–1870).

[8] By 1814, Bouvier was living in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where on Wednesday, November 9, 1814, he published the first issue of The American Telegraph.

In the weekly newspaper, he resolved to "discountenance factions and factious men" while following an editor's duty of "exposure and support of the truth".

In 1818, Bouvier moved to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he joined with another periodical to publish The Genius of Liberty and American Telegraph.