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Bowles was the son of Samuel Bowles (1779-[[1851]]) of Springfield, who had established the weekly ''Springfield Republican'' in 1824. The daily issue began in 1844, as an evening newspaper, afterwards becoming a morning journal. To its service Samuel Bowles, junior, devoted his life (with the exception of a brief period during which he was in charge of a daily in Boston), and he gave the paper a national reputation by the vigor, incisiveness and independence of its editorial utterances, and the concise and convenient arrangement of its local and general news-matter.  

Bowles was the son of Samuel Bowles (1779-[[1851]]) of Springfield, who had established the weekly ''Springfield Republican'' in 1824. The daily issue began in 1844, as an evening newspaper, afterwards becoming a morning journal. To its service Samuel Bowles, junior, devoted his life (with the exception of a brief period during which he was in charge of a daily in Boston), and he gave the paper a national reputation by the vigor, incisiveness and independence of its editorial utterances, and the concise and convenient arrangement of its local and general news-matter.  

==Politics==

==Politics==

During the controversies affecting slavery and resulting in the [[American Civil War]], Bowles supported, in general, the [[Whig Party]] and [[U.S. Republican Party, History|Republican]] parties, but in the period of [[Reconstruction]] under President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] his paper represented anti-administration or [[Liberal Republican]]s and supported [[Horace Greeley]] in 1872.  In the disputed election of 1876 Bowles favored the claims of [[Samuel J. Tilden]], and subsequently became independent in politics. Bowles died in Springfield in 1878.  

During the controversies affecting slavery and resulting in the [[American Civil War]], Bowles supported, in general, the [[Whig Party]] and [[Republican_Party#Third_Party_System:_1854-1894|Republican Party]], but in the period of [[Reconstruction]] under President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] his paper represented anti-administration or [[Liberal Republican]]s and supported [[Horace Greeley]] in 1872.  In the disputed election of 1876 Bowles favored the claims of [[Samuel J. Tilden]], and subsequently became independent in politics. Bowles died in Springfield in 1878.  

During his lifetime, and subsequently, the ''Republican'' office was a sort of school for young journalists, especially in the matter of pungency and conciseness of style, one of his ''maxim''s being: "put it all in the first paragraph". Bowles published two books of travel, ''Across the Continent'' (1865) and ''The Switzerland of America'' (1869), which were combined into one volume under the title ''Our New West'' (1869). He was succeeded as publisher and editor-in-chief of the ''Republican'' by his son Samuel Bowles (b. 1851).

During his lifetime, and subsequently, the ''Republican'' office was a sort of school for young journalists, especially in the matter of pungency and conciseness of style, one of his ''maxim''s being: "put it all in the first paragraph". Bowles published two books of travel, ''Across the Continent'' (1865) and ''The Switzerland of America'' (1869), which were combined into one volume under the title ''Our New West'' (1869). He was succeeded as publisher and editor-in-chief of the ''Republican'' by his son Samuel Bowles (b. 1851).