American author, born in Boston, MA, in 1814. He was author of numerous popular tales, poems and plays. He wrote under the pseudonym “Old Un.” In connection with W. S. Chase he translated Lamartine’s History of the Revolution of 1848, and was for a time co-editor of Ballou’s Pictorial. He also published A Cyclopædia of History (1836) and Life-Scenes from the World Around Us (1853). He died in 1881.
