Clergyman; born in
Reading, Mass., July 11, 1780; graduated at Harvard in 1880; became minister of the Congregational Church at
Lunenburg, Mass., in 1802, but resigned in 1814.
He went West as a missionary, but was obliged to give up in consequence of ill health.
He then devoted himself to literature, and edited the
Western review in
Cincinnati, and, for a short time, the
Knickerbocker magazine in New York.
Among his publications are
Recollections of ten years passed in the Valley of the Mississippi;
Biography and history of the Western States in the Mississippi Valley (2 volumes);
Indian wars of the West;
Memoir of Daniel Boone, etc. He died in
Salem, Mass., Aug. 16, 1840.