American journalist and author, born at Boscawen, NH, on the 20th of May 1797; died in Boston on the 20th of November 1877; started life as an apprentice in the New Hampshire Patriot office (1809); editor of the Concord Gazette (1812); had charge of various New Hampshire papers, until he founded the Essex Patriot (1817); in 1821 he established the Boston Statesman, which soon became the leading Democratic daily of Massachusetts; postmaster of Boston in 1829–40, and again in 1845–49. From 1849 to 1871 he resided in Paris, and from that time gave all his attention to high-class literature. His many poems, under the nom de plume of “Boscawen” were quite successful; he published, also, a number of Tales from the German, Italian and French (1843) and Improvisations and Translations (1852). He died in Boston on the 20th of November 1877.
