Description: The Biographical Annual: Containing Memoirs of Emminent Persons, Recently Deceased. Published by Linen and Fennell in 1841. Edited by Edgar Allan Poe's nemesis, Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815 – 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic from Vermont. This black hearted villain, despite publishing numerous successful anthologies of poetry and prose and influencing the literary taste of the public for years, is best known as Edgar Allan Poe’s literary executor and the man libeled Poe and created the myth that Poe was a drug and alcohol addled madman with his notorious obituary and subsequent biography. https://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poegrisw.htm Contains biographical sketches written by William C. Bryant, Horace Greeley, Theodore Sedgwick, Epes Sargent and others on relatively obscure recently dead persons. Contents: Theodore Sedgwich by William C. BryantWilliam Dunlap by John InmanBenjamin B. ThatcherJesse Buel by Prof. Amos DeanJudge White by Horace GreeleyJohn Bleecker Van Schaick by S. Dewitt BloodgoodJarvis, the Painter by William L. StoneCharles Hammond by Alexander MannRev. Charles Follen J.U.D. by Henry J. RaymondGoverner Benjamin Pierce by Jacob B. MooreGeneral Absalom Peters by Absalom Peters, D.D.Robert Y. Hayne by Alexander MannRichard Bacon Jr. by C. W. EverestThe Chevalier de Gerstner by W. M. GillespieRev. Demetrius A. Gallitzin, the "pastor of the Alleghanies" by Charles Constantine Pise, D.D.William Leggett by Theodore SedgwichSolomon Southwich by S. S. RandallHenry J. Finn by Epes SargentRev. Elihu W. Balwin by Joseph H. MyersNicholas CusickRev. John Thornton Kirkland, D.D., L.L. D. William MaclureRev. William StoneGovernor WolfCaptain James RileyStephen BurroughsJohn HelmGeneral AdairJohn Lowell, L.L. D.Gilbert Stuart Newton by J. Kenrick FisherSamuel Ward by Charles KingStephen Van RensselaerDr. Henry Perrine by W. M. GillespieTimothy FlintMatthew Carey
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher: Linen and Fennell
Topic: History
Subject: Biography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1841
