Walter Woolnough was born in Bungay, Suffolk County, England in 1821.  He moved with his parents to America when he was just eleven years old.  He would grow up in New York and become an apprentice for a printing company.  He would eventually move west to Ohio, and work for the Ashtabula Ohio Sentinel, a Whig newspaper in 1842.  A decade later he would move even father west, and settle in Battle Creek, Michigan and establish the first newspaper in the city.  Over the years he was an outspoken abolitionist, and became very active in politics.  His fascinating story is the subject of this episode.

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