American author, born in New Haven, CT, on the 17th of August 1801. He was a graduate of West Point and the College of New Jersey; in 1825 was admitted to the Connecticut bar, and in 1835 became professor of constitutional law in Cincinnati (Ohio) College. He edited the Cincinnati Chronicle from 1836 to 1849, the Atlas from 1849 to 1852, and the Railroad Record from 1854 to 1872. He wrote many books on law, mathematics, politics and history, among them being Life of Winfield Scott (1848) and a History of the Mexican War (1848). He died at Morrow, OH, on the 27th of October 1880.
