As a boy, Wyeth was ap­pren­ticed to a print­er. At age 21, he be­came the man­ag­er of a print­ing com­pa­ny in San­to Do­min­go, on­ly to bare­ly es­cape with his life in the in­sur­rect­ion there. In 1792, he re­turned to Amer­i­ca, and set­tled in Har­ri­sburg, Penn­syl­van­ia, where he be­came in­volved in the pub­lish­ing bus­i­ness and co-owned a news­pa­per (The Or­a­cle of Dau­phin). Af­ter on­ly a year in Har­ris­burg, Pres­i­dent George Wash­ing­ton ap­point­ed him post­mas­ter; he lost his of­fice five years la­ter when Pres­i­dent John Adams de­clared the po­si­tion to be in­com­pat­i­ble with in­volve­ment in news­pa­pers. His works in­clude:

• Re­pos­i­to­ry of Sac­red Mu­sic, 1810
• Re­pos­i­to­ry of Sac­red Mu­sic, Part Se­cond (Har­ris­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1813)

These two vol­umes were huge­ly suc­cess­ful, sell­ing 150,000 co­pies.

Sources

Music

1. Brewer
2. Nettleton
3. Salford