American soldier and author, born at Ovid, NY, on the 1st of January 1838; graduated at Yale (1859), and was engaged in literary work until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he joined the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers as a lieutenant, remaining in the army until 1865. In 1871 he was appointed professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. He wrote a History of the English Language (1879) and Studies in Chaucer (3 vols., 1892). See also James Fenimore Cooper and Yale Book of American Verse.
