[Samuel Lorenzo]. American author, born in Newburyport, MA, on the 19th of January 1783; graduated from Dartmouth in 1804. He was admitted to the bar in 1806, and during the War of 1812 commanded a regiment of militia on the coast defenses. In 1824 he became editor of the Boston Gazette and of the Boston Monthly Magazine; also, in 1826, of the National Republic. In 1828 he went to New York and recommenced the practice of the legal profession. He wrote Travels in North America, by Ali Bey (1818); Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen and Men of Letters (1821); Memoirs of General Lafayette (1824); The Genius of Free-Masonry (1828); Discourse on the Life and Character of De Witt Clinton (1828); Lectures on American Literature (1829); American Biography (1833); History of the United States (1834); and other works in the fields of history and biography. He died in Hopkinton, MA, on the 8th of July 1838.
