James Aldrich
James Aldrich | |
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| Born | July 14, 1810 |
| Died | September 9, 1856 (aged 46) |
James Aldrich (1810–1856) was an editor and minor poet.
Aldrich was born in Mattituck, New York, apparently 14 July 1810, the sixth of the ten children of James Aldrich and Helen Hudson. He was a merchant from a young age.[1] Following his marriage to Matilda Hall Lyon in 1836, having had some success as a writer, at the age of 26 he was able to abandon business for literature.[1] He founded the short-lived New York Literary Gazette in 1839, and later in 1842–44 worked as an editor on the New World (New York).[2] In the latter part of his life he resumed his business pursuits.[1][3]
Much of his poetry was published in his Literary Gazette, and not brought together in a collection until after his death, when his daughter circulated it privately.[4] His poem A Death-Bed is often republished.[2]
References
- ^ a b c James Aldrich. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Edited by Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914; Fiske, John, 1842-1901. Page 42. Accessed 9 December 2025.
- ^ a b James Aldrich from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
- ^ James Aldrich. 1850 U.S. Census. Accessed via ancestry.com subscription site on 9 December 2025.
- ^ Poems by James Aldrich Archived 2018-10-14 at the Wayback Machine from the PoetryArchive
External links
- Works by or about James Aldrich at Wikisource
- Works by James Aldrich at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)