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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irving , Washington 1783 -1859 (search)
Irving, Washington 1783-1859
Author; born in New York City, April 3, 1783.
His father was a Scotchman, his mother an English-
Washington Irving. woman.
He engaged in literature while yet a youth, and was in Europe for his health in 1804-06.
In 1807 he published,
The old Church at Sleepy hollow. in connection with his brother Peter and James K. Paulding, Salmagundi, and in 1808, his Knickerbocker's history of New York.
After editing a magazine during the War of 1812-15, he went to Europe, where he resided seventeen years; when, after the failure of a mercantile house in New York with which he was connected, he was left to rely on his literary labors for support.
He spent his time partly in England, France, Germany, and Spain, and published his Life of Columbus in 1828, which was followed by the Conquest of Granada and the Alhambra.
From 1829 to 1831 he was secretary of the American legation in London, and received from George IV.
the fifty-guinea gold medal awarded fo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paulding , James Kirke 1779 -1860 (search)
Paulding, James Kirke 1779-1860
Author; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1779; was a son of an active Revolutionary soldier, who was commissary-general of New York troops in the Continental service, and was ruined by the non-acceptance by the government of his drafts, or non-redemption of his pledges, and he was imprisoned for debt.
James went to New York City, and in early life became engaged in literary pursuits with Washington Irving, whose brother William married Paulding's sister.
They began, in 1807, the popular publication Salmagundi.
He was introduced to the government through his pamphlet on The United States and England, and, in 1814, was made secretary of the board of naval commissioners.
Afterwards he was navy agent at New York, and, from 1839 to 1841, was Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Paulding was a facile and elegant writer of essays and stories, and was possessed of a fund of humor that pervaded his compositions.
He contributed to the periodicals of the