Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 19 January 1783; died in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 8 July 1838) was a United States author and lawyer.
Biography
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1804, studied law with Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons, and became an eminent lawyer. During the War of 1812, he commanded a regiment of militia on the coast defences.
He became editor of the Boston Gazette in 1824, also conducting the Boston Monthly Magazine. In 1826 he established the National Republican, which failed two years later, and he returned to practicing law in New York City.
Works
His works, which are chiefly biographical, include:
- Travels in North America by Ali Bey (Boston, 1818)
- Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen, and Men of Letters (1821)
- Memoirs of Gen. Lafayette (1824)
- The Genius of Freemasonry (Providence, 1828)
- Discourse on the Life and Character of De Witt Clinton (1828)
- Lectures on American Literature (New York, 1829)
- Sketches of Public Characters by Ignatius Loyola Robertson, LL. D. (1830)
- American Biography (1833)
- History of the United States, a revised edition of a work by John Hinton (1834)
- Life of Thomas Eddy (1834) at Google Books
- Advice in the Pursuit of Literature (1835)
- Memoir of the Life of Daniel Webster (1835)
- Life of Aaron Burr (1835)
- Life of Andrew Jackson (1835)
- The Bachelor, and Other Tales (1836)
- Female Biography (Philadelphia, 1843)
He edited “The Library of American History” (New York, 1837).
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