American grammarian, born in Providence, RI, on the 7th of March 1791; died in Lynn, MA, on the 31st of March 1857. He was of Quaker descent; taught school in Rhode Island and in a Friends’ school in Dutchess County, NY, and in 1813 removed to New York City, where he conducted an academy for over twenty years. He published grammars which were great improvements on those previously in use, and were authorities for years. Their titles were Institutes of English Grammar; First Lines of English Grammar; A Grammar of English Grammars.
