Weed

Weed, THURLOW, journalist, was born at Cairo, New York, November 15, 1797, was employed as a lad in several printing-offices, served as a private in the war of 1812, and afterwards edited newspapers in Western New York, until in 1830 he founded the Albany Evening Journal, an anti-Jackson, Whig, or Republican paper, which became the organ of the party, and which he controlled for thirty-five years. He was a leading party manager, and exercised almost supreme influence in nominations and appointments, while declining all offices for himself. In 1867-68 he was editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser. He died 22d November 1882. See his Autobiography (1882; vol. ii., by his grandson, 1884).