American journalist, born in Philadelphia, the 10th of October 1802. He served his apprenticeship on the New York Gazette and the American; he founded the New York Mirror, and afterward the Home Journal, with both of which N. P. Willis was associated. He was for a time brigadier-general of the New York militia. He wrote a number of poems, which found a ready sale, both separate and in book-form. Among his best-known poems are Woodman, Spare That Tree!; We Were Boys Together; My Mother’s Bible; Long Time Ago; and Whip-poor-will. He died in New York City, the 6th of July 1864. See also Literary Criticism.
