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Locke, David Rose
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pseudonym Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby
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| Journalist and writer, born in Vestal, New York, USA. He had little formal education, but when very young (1843–50) he became an apprentice journalist in Cortland, NY. He then worked as an itinerant printer and a founder of the Plymouth Advertiser in Ohio (1852). As editor of the Jeffersonian in Findlay, OH, he gained popularity by printing the Nasby letters (1861); his assumed persona, the Reverend Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, was an illiterate advocate of slavery and of everything that Locke detested. President Lincoln enjoyed the letters and was said to read them aloud to his Cabinet. Locke became editor and principal owner of the Toledo Blade (1865–88). He was a popular lecturer, and continued to publish his satiric letters until 1887, first collected in 1864 as The Nasby Papers. |
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