Patrick Ford (journalist)

[citation needed] He left school aged thirteen and two years later was working as a printer's devil for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator.

[1] During the American Civil War (1861–1865) Ford served in Union forces in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment with his father and brother.

[citation needed] He spent four years after the war in Charleston, editing the Southern Carolina Leader, printed to support newly freed slaves.

It promised "more reading material than any other paper in America" and outsold John Boyle O'Reilly's Boston Pilot.

Originally the paper was supportive of Franklin Delano Roosevelt but eventually became disenchanted with him believing that he had become a "friend of the money lords".