American journalist and poet; born in Gloucester, MA, on the 27th of September 1813. He became a student at Harvard University, paying particular attention to the study of belles-lettres. Subsequently he was occupied in editing and publishing the Boston Daily Advertiser and Boston Atlas, but in 1839 removed to New York City, where he occupied an editorial position upon The Mirror, and for several years officiated in a similar capacity upon the Boston Evening Transcript. On retiring from the latter position he edited a series of elementary schoolbooks and wrote a number of dramas, among which was the Bride of Genoa, produced in 1836, followed by the Priestess; Velasco (1837); also wrote numerous songs, the best known of which is Life on the Ocean Wave. Probably his best works are Life of Henry Clay (1842) and Songs of the Sea (1847). He died in Boston, on the 31st of December 1880.
