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Merrimack (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
for children (1884); The Cruise of the Mystery, and other poems (1886). Died on Appledore Island, Aug. 26, 1894. Thoreau, Henry David Born in Concord, Mass., July 12, 1817. Graduating from Harvard in 1837, he devoted himself to literature, supplying his simple needs by surveying, carpentering, and engineering. He cared for simplicity of life and not at all for society. He and his brother spent a week in a home-made boat, a journey that found record in A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers (1849). He lived for some time in a hut which he had built himself on the edge of Walden pond, and made the experience famous in Walden, or life in the woods (1854). He wrote for The Dial, Democratic Review, Graham's, Putnam's and the Union magazines, the Atlantic monthly, and the N. Y. Tribune. Some of his published works are Excursions in field and Forest (1863); The Mlaine woods (1864); Cape Cod (1865); Letters to various persons (1865); and A Yankee in Canada (1866). Died in Concor
Christmas (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
his children's books are The Ting-a-ling stories (1870); Roundabout Rambles (1872) ; What might have been expected (1874); Tales out of School (1872) ; A Jolly Fellowship (1880) ; The Floating Prince (1881) ; The story of Viteau (1884); and Personally conducted (1889). His novels and short stories include Rudder Grange (1879); the Lady or the Tiger? and other stories (1884) ; The late Mrs. Null (1886); The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (1886); The Hundredth man (1887) ; The Christmas wreck, and other tales (1887); The bee man of Orn and other fanciful tales (1887); The Dusantes (1888); Amos Kilbright, with other stories (1888); The great War Syndicate (1889); The stories of the three Burglars (1890) ; and The Merry Chanter (1890). Died in Washington, D. C., April 20, 1902. Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher]. Born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811. She was the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher, and in 1836 married Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, having been educated at Har
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
oston, Feb. 2, 1879. Dickinson, Emily Born in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 10, 1830. A recluse by temperament, she rarely went beyond her father's grounds, and, although she wrote many verses, was with the greatest difficulty persuaded to print three or four poems during her lifetime. Her Poems (1890) and Poems (1892) were edited by M. L. Todd and T. W. Higginson; and Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 vols., 1894) by M. L. Todd. She died at Amherst, May 15, 1886. Dickinson, John Born in Maryland, Nov. 13, 1732. He studied law in Philadelphia and in London and practiced successfully in Philadelphia; was a member of the First Continental Congress and the author of a series of state papers put forth by that body. In 1788, he wrote nine letters signed Fabius, and was the author of Letters from a Pennsylvania farmer to the inhabitants of the British colonies (1767); Essays on the constitutional power of great Britain over the colonies in America (1774). Died in Wilmington, Del., Feb.
Plymouth, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
seven Gables (1851); The wonder book (1851) ; The Blithedale romance (1852) ; A campaign life qf Franklin Pierce (1852); and Tanglewood tales (1853) ; The marble Faun (1860); Our old home (1863). The unfinished works published after his death were The Dolliver romance, Septimius Felton and Dr. Grimshawe's secret. His American and English notebooks and French and Italian note-books were posthumously edited by his wife. During this time he occupied several government positions. Died at Plymouth, N. H., May 18, 1864. Hayne, Paul Hamilton Born in Charleston, S. C., Jan. 1, 1830. He graduated at the College of South Carolina and studied law, but gave up legal practice for literature, and was the editor of Russell's magazine and the Charleston Literary Gazette, contributing also to the Southern literary Messenger. He served in the Confederate army until his health failed. In feeble health, he yet wrote much, and was the author of Poems (1855); Sonnets and other poems (1857); Av
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
he studied law, but devoted himself to literary work, contributing articles to the Knickerbocker magazine, which were collected and published as The Oregon Trail (1849). Other publications are The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851) ; Pioneers of France in the New world (1865); The book of Roses (1866); Jesuits in North America (1867); discovery of the great West (1869); The old Regime in Canada (1874); Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. （1877); and Montcalm and Wolfe (1884). Died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., Nov. 8, 1893. Parton, James He was born in Canterbury, England, Feb. 9, 1822, and came to the United States when he was five years old; taught in Philadelphia and contributed to the Home journal. Some of his publications are Life of Horace Greeley (1855) ; humorous poetry of the English Language from Chaucer to Saxe (1856); Life and times of Aaron Burr (1857) ; life of Andrew Jackson (3 vols., 1859-60); General Butler in New Orleans (1863); Life and times of Benjamin F
Gottingen (Lower Saxony, Germany) (search for this): chapter 12
witchcraft, and in justification of his attitude wrote The Wonders of the invisible world (1692). He also published, among many volumes, Memorable Providences relating to witchcraft And possessions (1685); Essays to do good (1710); but is best known by his Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical history of New England (1702). Died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1728. Motley, John Lothrop Born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814. Graduating at Harvard in 1831, he studied at Gottingen, and occupied several public positions abroad. He published Morton's hope, a novel, in 1839, and Merry Mount, a romance of the Massachusetts Colony in 1849. His first historical essay on Peter the Great came out in the North American Review for 1845. The rise of the Dutch Republic was published in three volumes (1856), two volumes of The history of the United Netherlands in 1860, the two concluding volumes in 1868, and The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland, with a
Iceland (Iceland) (search for this): chapter 12
otsteps of the masters (1876); Poganuc people (1878); and a Dog's Mission (1881). Died in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1896. Taylor, Bayard Born in Kennett Square, Chester Co., Penn., Jan. 11, 1825. He received a high-school education and contributed poems to local papers, bringing out his first volume, Ximena, and other poems, in 1844. Some of his publications are Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack and staff (1846); and many other accounts of travel, the tnal one being Egypt and Iceland (1874). Among his novels are Hannah Thurston (1863); John Godfrey's fortunes (1864); The story of Kennett (1866); Joseph and his friend (1870); and Beauty and the Beast, and tales of home (1872). His books of poetry, by which he is, perhaps, best known, include The poet's journal (1862); Poems (1865); The Masque of the Gods (1872); Lars: a pastoral of Norway (1873); Home-Pastorals (1875); The national Ode (1876); and Prince Deukalion: a lyrical Drama (1878). His most valuable work in verse
Cummington (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Clara Howard in 1801 ; and Jane Talbot in 1704. In the mean time he had become an editor, having in charge between 1799 and 1808 The monthly magazine and American Review (New York) and The literary magazine and American Register (Philadelphia). He wrote also Alcuin, a dialogue on the rights of women (1797); several political pamphlets ; a General Geography; and a treatise on Rome during the age of the Antonines. Died of consumption, Feb. 22, 1810. Bryant, William Cullen Born in Cummington, Mass., Nov. 3, 1794. His father was a country physician, and could give him only a year at Williams College, after which he spent the years between 1811 and 1825 in the study and practice of law. His genius was remarkably precocious. Thanatopsis, perhaps his most famous poem, was written at the age of seventeen. His first creditable volume of verse, published in 1821, included Thanatopsis and the Lines to a water-fowl. Numerous other volumes appeared between that date and 1864. The tran
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ed in 1876 and later. He died at Concord, Mass., April 27, 1882. Fiske, John Born in Hartford, Conn., Mar. 30, 1842. He graduated from Harvard College in 1863, and from the Harvard Law Schoolr of Rev. Lyman Beecher, and in 1836 married Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, having been educated at Hartford, Conn., and at the Litchfield Academy. For a short time she lived at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she Footsteps of the masters (1876); Poganuc people (1878); and a Dog's Mission (1881). Died in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1896. Taylor, Bayard Born in Kennett Square, Chester Co., Penn., Jan. 11, 18the times (1774); his famous McFingal, a modern Epic poem (1774-82). He was associated with the Hartford wits in the production of The Anarchiad (1786-87), and was judge of the superior court from 180g friend. Later, Whittier edited the American Manufacturer, the Haverhill Gazette, and the Hartford, Conn., New England weekly Review, also contributing to John Neal's magazine, The Yankee, and afte
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ensed novels (1902). He died at Red House, Camberley, in Surrey, Eng., May 6, 1902. Hawthorne, Nathaniel Born in Salem, Mass., July 4, 1804, of Puritan stock. He was of an imaginative and sensitive temperament, and after graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, spent twelve years in Salem in retirement, reading and writing continually. His first novel, Fanshawe, appeared anonymously in 1826; then he became editor of the American magazine of useful and Entertaining knowledge, and contrib; and Eureka, a prose poem (1848). Died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7, 1849. Prescott, William Hickling Born in Salem, Mass., May 4, 1796. He graduated from Harvard in 1814, and would have studied law, but defective vision forbade, and he turut three years, and occupied various public offices, being a member of the court which conducted the witchcraft trials at Salem. Later he became convinced of the error of his conduct in this connection and volunteered public apology for it. His var
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