Daniel Clement Colesworthy

Who was Daniel Clement Colesworthy?

Daniel Clement Colesworthy was an American printer, bookseller, and poet. He was born in Portland, Maine in 1810, the son of Daniel P. and Anna Collins Colesworthy. He became a printer, having served an apprenticeship in the office of Arthur Shirley, beginning at the age of fourteen years. Early in his life, he became the editor and publisher of a young people's paper first known as The Sabbath School Instructor, and afterwards Moral Reformer, and Journal of Reform, which did not last many years.

In June, 1840, he 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. The two papers, becoming united, were called the Tribune and Bulletin.

Colesworthy kept a book store on Exchange Street, and for a while in the basement of the old Mariners' church Building, on the corner of Fore and Moulton Streets.

He afterwards, and before 1851, moved to Boston and opened a bookstore on Cornhill. He was also proprietor of another store in the immediate vicinity, having his home in Chelsea.