Mary Katharine Goddard
HER REVOLUTIONARY NEWSPAPER GAVE REAL MEANING TO “PUBLISH OR PERISH”
Between prison stints, the canny but less-than-dependable William Goddard handed his newish newspaper over to his older sister, Mary. The year was 1774, and Mary, most likely the colonies’ only woman newspaper publisher, wasted no time in giving the British what for, even printing , Thomas Paine’s pro-revolutionary treatise. Mary was later named Baltimore postmaster, likely making her the first female federal employee. But Mary’s knee
