Lawyer: born in
Arlington, Vt., March 12, 1785: educated himself for college, and was graduated at the
University of
Vermont in 1804.
During the
Canadian difficulties of 1838 he was the friend and legal adviser of
General Wool, and subsequently wrote a history of the events of that uprising under the title of
The patriot War.
He attained a large practice in his profession, and was a voluminous contributor to periodical literature on the public events of his day. He died in
Burlington, Vt., Feb. 13, 1861.
