William Henry III was born in Boston, Massachusetts to William Henry II and Ann Marie. As a child, he apprenticed as a printer for the American Traveller (no that is the way it was spelled, I double checked). Anyway, his duty was to greet ships as they docked at port. Receiving the latest news from Europe, he would then pass that information on to the publisher for the American Traveller.His father was murdered in 1844, shortly afterwards his mother married James Buckle, moving the family to Labrador. It was there where William learned the fishing trade. In 1858, he was called to England where he received an inheritance from his great-uncle William Jury. Using that inheritance, he started a large-scale fishing operation. He also had a successful career in politics representing the Newfo...
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