Seba Smith/Major Jack Downing Collection 1838-1851

Griswold, Rufus Willmot, 1815-1857

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Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere. He built a strong literary reputation, in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America. This anthology, the most comprehensive of its time, included what he deemed the best examples of American poetry. He produc...

Chase, George W., 1828-1859

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George W. Chase was a resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1846), and later of Danville, Maine. Associates in Baton Rouge included Douglas C. Montan, a writer and journalist, Samuel Skolfield, a businessman, Joseph Faquino, Jr., a post office clerk, and Andrew White, a member of Captain Beals Company, 2nd Battalion of Andrew Jackson's Regiment during the Mexican War, 1845-1848. From the description of George W. Chase correspondence, 1846-1850. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat re...

Seba Smith

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Jack Downing

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Graham, George R.

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