In 1638, Mrs. Glover set up America’s first press at the Massachusetts Colony’s new college, Harvard. Mrs. Glover and her husband, the Rev. Jose Glover, had sailed from England with five children, a few technicians, and a printing press. Jose Glover was a non-conforming minister who meant to provide religious books and tracts for the Colony.
But he died on the ship across. So Mrs. Glover went right to work setting up the printing shop. Her chief assistant was the oldest technician, Stephen Daye. We now credit Daye, who could barely read or write, with being America’s first printer.
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