Do the names John Dunlap or Mary Katherine Goddard mean anything to you? If not, you might want to read a Forum article in today’s USA Today by Antonio Perez, “History shouldn’t forget our ‘Founding Printers’.”
Like [John] Dunlap, Goddard was no ordinary citizen. Despite putting her life on the line to print the document, despite being a trailblazing publisher and commercial printer, despite serving as Baltimore’s postmaster for 14 years, she was forced out of office in 1789 by U.S. Postmaster General Samuel Osgood.
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