Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888

Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant).

From the guide to the Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)

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