The Waverley Magazine and Literary Repository (1850âÂÂ1908) , also known as Waverley Magazine and Illustrated Waverley Magazine, was a periodical for women in the United States. It included stories, poetry, and music. It was published in Boston.
Moses Arnold Dow (May 20, 1810âÂÂ1886) was its founder, editor, and publisher. Dow was a native of Littleton. He worked at Sylvester T. Goss' printing business.
He founded and equipped Dow Academy in Franconia, New Hampshire. He built a monument to his father and mother, Joseph Emerson Dow and Abigail Arnold Dow, at a Franconia cemetery. He wrote about his experiences with spiritualism.
Waverley Magazine was billed as the largest paper in the world and was a weekly. State senator and public official Gen. Moses Dow was his grandfather.
His daughter Mary Elizabeth Dow married George Robert White Scott. She wrote a book about her husband.