Poet and journalist; born at Demerara, British Guiana, on the 13th of August 1809; died at New York City on the 12th of September 1864. His father was a native of Connecticut, but carried on business in Demerara. The son was very lame, and at an early age was sent to New England for education and medical treatment. He studied at Harvard and Trinity; was admitted to the bar in 1832, but his inclinations were in favor of literature. He went to New York and was associate editor on the American Monthly Magazine, and afterwards was with Horace Greeley on the New Yorker. He was on the staff of several other publications, most of which were unsuccessful. He was a contributor to various periodicals and the author of the poems The Meditation of Nature; Poetry; A Satire; Infatuation; The Nautilus; To One Beloved; The Departed; and The Old Sexton.
