Jeremiah Hacker was a missionary, reformer, vegetarian, and journalist who wrote and published The Pleasure Boat and The Chariot of Wisdom and Love in Portland, Maine from 1845 to 1866.
13 Facts About Jeremiah Hacker
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Jeremiah Hacker lost his hearing, and used an ear trumpet.
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Jeremiah Hacker married Submit Tobey, known as Mittie, in 1846.
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Jeremiah Hacker was a Portland newspaper publisher for two decades.
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Jeremiah Hacker was strikingly tall with a big, bushy beard.
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Jeremiah Hacker became known as an outspoken journalist who railed against organized religion, government, prisons, slavery, land monopoly, and warfare.
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Jeremiah Hacker was a proponent of abolition, women's rights, temperance, and vegetarianism.
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Jeremiah Hacker was an early proponent of anarchism, and free thought, he was a prison reformer.
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Unhappy with how juvenile offenders were treated in the adult prisons, Jeremiah Hacker was influential in building public support for a Maine reform school which became the third in the country, after Philadelphia and Boston.
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Jeremiah Hacker was known for criticizing quack doctors selling fake miracle cures.
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Jeremiah Hacker was a vegetarian who championed animal rights, environmentalism and vegetarianism in his Pleasure Boat newspaper.
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Jeremiah Hacker was a supporter of temperance but not of total alcohol prohibition.
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Jeremiah Hacker died on August 27,1895 in Vineland, New Jersey at age 94.