American editor, born in New Jersey, on the 25th of February 1816; graduated at Princeton in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in Kentucky, but never practiced. From 1837 to 1853, excepting one year, he was connected with the New York Evening Post, assisting his father-in-law, William Cullen Bryant. In 1843 he issued the Weekly Pathfinder. He contributed largely to the Democratic Review, and was also an editor of Putnam’s Monthly. In 1865 he again became connected with the Evening Post. He wrote Popular View of the Doctrines of Charles Fourier (1844); Construction Democracy; Vala: A Mythological Tale (1851); A Handbook of Universal Biography (1851); History of France (1861); Out of the Past (1871); and an edition of Bryant’s writings, with a complete biography (1883–84).
