ZACHARIAH POULSON,

ZACHARIAH POULSON was born in Philadelphia, on the 5th of September, 1761. He departed this life, at his residence, No. 106 Chestnut Street, July 31st, 1844; and his remains were buried in the family cemetery at Germantown, on the following Saturday.

Zachariah Poulson was the editor, publisher, and proprietor of "Poulson's American Daily Advertiser" for nearly forty years; the duties of which he relinquished, and that newspaper ceased to be, after the 28th of December, 1839. It was the first newspaper published daily in the United States.

The father of Mr. Poulson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the 16th of June, 1737. He was the only son of Nicholas Poulson; together they embarked at the city named, and arrived in Philadelphia in the year 1749. Nicholas Poulson resided in Germantown some years before his death, at which town, now a part of our city, his son Zachariah, the elder, learned the art of printing, in the office of Christopher Sower, the second, a learned and accomplished printer of celebrity, who, like his great prototype, Faust, manufactured his own types, printing-ink, &c.

Sower's father here established a printing-office in the year 1735, and printed in the year 1743 the first edition of the Holy Bible in this country; it was in the German language. Christopher Sower, the second, who succeeded his father in the year 1744, in the year 1762, printed a second edition of the Bible, and a third edition in 1776. His pupil, Zachariah Poulson, the elder, in after life was an eminent and highly esteemed member of the Moravian Church. He died on the 14th of January, 1804, and his earthly remains were deposited in the burial-place of that church near Franklin Square, in this city.

Mr. Poulson, the subject of this article, was eminent in his art as a printer; which he acquired in the then extensive printing-office of Joseph Cruikshank, Market Street.

He was for many years successively elected their printer by the Senate of Pennsylvania; he printed also, in folio, the "Minutes of