American writer and author, born in New York City, on the 2nd of October 1825; graduated at the Free Academy of New York in 1855, and after a year’s service on the New York Observer, became editor of the Independent, and remained in that position for fifteen years. He was connected editorially with the Brooklyn Union and the Golden Age, and was prominent as a lecturer. In 1883 he settled in Paris. He wrote, in verse, The King’s Ring; The Sexton’s Tale; Thou and I; in prose, Sancta Sanctorum; a Life of Victoria Woodhull; and Tempest-Tossed, a novel.
