American author and journalist; born in Berwick-on-Tweed, England, on the 14th of August 1833. He emigrated, with his parents, to Michigan in 1848; became an editor of the New York Tribune at the age of nineteen; traveled through the South, and became noted as an abolitionist; was Kansas correspondent of the Tribune during the border warfare; was agent and consul for the Haitian government; was war correspondent during the Civil War; founded negro schools and an orphans’ asylum in South Carolina; established a lyceum bureau in Boston; traveled through Ireland during the famine of 1881 as correspondent of the Tribune; lectured in the United States on Ireland; published Redpath’s Weekly in behalf of the Irish cause; and became an editor of the North American Review in 1886. He published Handbook to Kansas (1859); The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in Southern States (1859); Guide to Hayti (1860); John Brown, the Hero (1862); and Talks about Ireland (1881). He died in New York on the 10th of February 1891.
