Boston Post is first published.

Originally the Boston Daily Morning Post, it is published by Charles Greene, initially at 19 – 21 Water Street. Greene’s brother Nathaniel Greene is the first editor. The paper moves to 241 Washington Street, then to Milk Street in 1874* and is purchased by Rev. Ezra Winslow soon after. The first inexpensive, daily newspaper in Boston, it absorbs the Boston Statesman and becomes the leading Democratic newspaper in the city after it is purchased by Edwin Grozier in 1891, whose many promotions build its circulation to over 600,000, the largest in the U.S. for a broadsheet at the time. Inherited by Grozier’s son Richard in 1924, it is purchased by John Fox in the early 1950s. The last issue appears on October 4, 1956 (10/1-Duffy).