ABSTRACT
Frederick Olm sted , the recent traveler in the South, and long settled farmer on the south shore of Staten Island, became an editor and publisher in Manhattan. Acting upon a notion which seemed sudden to his friends, but not unexpected in Fred Olmsted, he was to move from the Island to the city, occupy a daily desk at Putnam’s Magazine, and invest a part of his-or his father's-fortune in Dix and Edwards, the firm which published the magazine.
