amerik. schrijver,, geb. 3 April 1822 te Boston, werkte aan verschillende bladen en tijdschriften, richtte zelf „Old and New” (tijdschrift gewijd aan sociale hervormingen, 1869) en „Lend a Hand’ 1886 op, en gaf in druk: The rosary (1848)r Sketches of Christian history (1850), Letters on Irish emigration (1852), The man without a country (novelle, 1879), Puritan politics (1869), Ingham papers (1870), His level best and other stories (1872), Christmas eve and. Christmas day (1872), In his name (1874),.
Ups and downs (1873), Working men’s homes (1874), One hundred years 1875), Philip* Nolan’s friends (1876), Back to hack (1878),. The life in common (1879), The Bible and its revision (1879), The kingdom of God (1880), Seven Spanish cities (1883), Stories of invention (1885), Franklin in France (1881 —88), The life of Washington (1887), Magellans discovery (in Winsors History etc.), Hawkins and Drake, The naval history of the United States; verder Story of Massachusetts (1892), The new Ohio (1892), Lights of two centuries (biographieën, 1895), James Bussel' Lowell and his friends (1899).