Born in Maine, Yale, sister is Fanny Fern, follows father into journalism, fame & wealth as foreign correspondent, also poetry and theater, employs the ex-slave Harriet Jacobs who accuses him of being pro-slavery in her memoirs, runs many publications in NYC, Home Journal, circle includes Poe, Longworth, Thackeray, Dickens, others.
R. W. Emerson collage
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
W.D. Howells
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Cullen Bryant
David Atwood
Walter Whitman
Washington Irving
Edwin Booth
Actors
R. W. Emerson
Prominent Men Outside Politics
Man reading newspaper
James Fennimore Cooper
John Greenleaf Whittier
William Cullen Bryant
Journalists/Newspaper
Nathaniel Willis (1806-1867)
Charles Dana
William Cullen Bryant
James Harper (Harpers Weekly)
Novelist, lecturer, pro-emancipation.
J. Wilkes
Fitz Green Halleck (1790-1867)
George W. Curtis (1824-1892)
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
William Prescott (1726-1795)
Photography Book
William Cullen Bryant
Bennett J. Gordon
Horace Greeley
Salmon Chase
John Forney
Poet, “the American Byron,” member of Knickerbocker Group (Cooper, Irving, Bryant), secretary to JJ Astor and given annuity at his death, satirist, Lincoln reads him.
Authors
Salmon Chase
Davis W Clark (1812-1871)