Template:Did you know nominations/George F. Lewis

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 02:35, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

George F. Lewis

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• ... that George F. Lewis helped set up the printing that reported the news for the first time by telegraph of a Presidential election result? "...aided in putting into type the first news ever received by telegraph of a presidential election"

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Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 12:59, 9 October 2019 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough. Hook checks out and is in article and cited. I don't see any textual issues, either. QPQ present. Good to go. Raymie (t • c) 20:51, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

• @Doug Coldwell: What does "set up the printing" mean? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:10, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• @Cwmhiraeth: - Citation 3 is Leeson, Michael A. (1881). History of Saginaw County, Mich. page 469 says, and aided in putting into type the first news ever received by telegraph of a presidential election that of Gen Zachary Taylor. Feel free to change the hook if you like. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:05, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• So the election result had been received by telegraph for the first time (rather than on horseback), and he published the information in his newspaper? Is that correct? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:04, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• @Cwmhiraeth: - Yes, that is correct! You can change the hook any way you wish and I already automatically approve. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:53, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• @Doug Coldwell: How about this? He may have just been the typesetter. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:01, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• ALT1 ... that having received the results of the 1848 presidential election by telegraph for the first time ever, George F. Lewis helped publish the news?

• @Cwmhiraeth: - Yes, ALT1 will work for me. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:12, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• Replacing the tick. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:30, 4 November 2019 (UTC)