Joel T. Headley

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Image of The Adirondack Pass from Headley’s 1849 "The Adirondack; or Life in the Woods"

Image of Lake Colden from Headley’s 1849 "The Adirondack; or Life in the Woods"

Joel Tyler Headley (December 30, 1813 - d. December 30, 1897) was an American clergyman, historian, Author, newspaper editor and politician who served as Secretary of State of New York.

Life

He was born at Walton, New York to a Presbyterian clergyman father, and he determined to take up the same occupation. He graduated from Union College in 1839 and took a course in theology at the Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, New York. After being ordained, he preached at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but soon had to give up his profession due to the strain, going to Europe in 1842. He turned to history writing, producing many works on various subjects. His writings were among the first to call attention to the Adirondack Mountains as a health resort. He later accepted the solicitations of Horace Greeley and became associate editor of the New York Tribune.

Headley was a member of the New York State Assembly (Orange Co., 1st D.) in 1855; and was New York Secretary of State from 1856 to 1857, elected on the American Party ticket at the New York state election, 1855. He died in Newburgh, New York in 1897, having lived there for many years.

Bibliography

Headley, Joel Tyler, ed (1859). Washington and His Generals. New York: C. Scribner.

References

Headley, Russell, ed (1908). The History of Orange County, New York. Middletown, N.Y.

Wikisource Links

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Joel_Tyler_Headley including a photo, signature, & his works listed.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Darien_Exploring_Expedition.pdf United States Navy Darien Exploring Expedition of the Isthmus of Panama 1854

External links

Images from Headley's "The Adirondack; or Life in the Woods" at Old Book Art.
Works by or about Joel T. Headley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Works by Joel Tyler Headley at Project Gutenberg

Political offices
Preceded by Elias W. Leavenworth	New York Secretary of State 1856 - 1857	Succeeded by Gideon J. Tucker

v t e Secretaries of State of New York

J Scott L Scott Hale T Tillotson Jenkins T Tillotson Jenkins Hale Jenkins Rensselaer Porter R Tillotson Cooper Yates Flagg Dix Spencer Campbell* Young Benton Morgan Randall Leavenworth Headley Tucker Floyd-Jones Ballard Depew Barlow Nelson Scribner Willers Bigelow Beach Carr Cook Rice Palmer McDonough O'Brien Whalen Koenig Lazansky May Hugo Lyons Hamilton Knapp Moses Flynn Walsh Curran DeSapio Simon Lomenzo Ghezzi Cuomo Paterson Shaffer Treadwell Daniels Milano* Jacobs Cortés-Vázquez Colón* Perales

* denotes Acting

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 33241832 LCCN: n50028285 ISNI: 0000 0001 0963 6871 GND: 172153204

Persondata
Name	Headley, Joel T.
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	December 30, 1813
Place of birth
Date of death	December 30, 1897
Place of death

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