American author; born near Carlisle, PA, 1783. He studied law in Philadelphia, but became a teacher in Clermont Seminary; contributed to Dunrie’s Portfolio; with his brother, prepared the first two volumes of Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (1820); his health failing, he went to Europe in 1835, whence he wrote Sketches of Paris (1838), afterward called An American in Paris; started a similar work, Sketches in London. The last few years of his life he was professor of Latin and Greek in the Philadelphia High School. He died on the 5th of April 1844.
