http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1851Trn1.htm#p017a
“In 1823 …Oliver Cowdery, (who has been the pioneer printer in at least a half dozen localities,) took a part of the old battered “small pica” that had been used in printing the Lockport Observatory, and adding to it indifferent materials from other sources, commenced the publication of the Newport Patriot.”
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/courier.htm
June 25, 1831:
“the second, an itinerant pamphlet pedlar and occasionally a journeyman printer, named Oliver Cowdery.”