Biography:

The Boston Courier was the first daily newspaper printed in Boston, with its first issue published on March 2, 1824. The Courier was founded, published, and edited by prominent Boston conservative Joseph T. Buckingham, who had gained notoriety for publishing the New England Galaxy and Masonic Magazine.  The Courier was an early mouthpiece of the Whig Party and before that, the National Republicans; the paper spent a large portion of its early issues publishing pro-tariff editorial letters written by Buckingham. The Courier was also notable for its “Geoponics” columns, published every Saturday, which gave readers useful information about farming practices and tools.  The columns were distinct for a paper based in a large city.
Buckingham sold out his shares in the paper in 1848, and his sons, Joseph H. Buckingham and Edwin Buckingham, who had been involved with the editing and publishing the paper since 1831, also abandoned the project to their longtime partner E.B. Foster. The paper changed hands and political profiles several times in the years leading up to the Civil War, becoming a conservative weekly paper in 1871.