James Aldrich
American editor and poet
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James Aldrich (1810–1856) was an editor and minor poet.
James Aldrich | |
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| Born | July 14, 1810 |
| Died | September 9, 1856 (aged 46) |
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]
