Francis Allyn Olmsted
Francis Allyn Olmsted (14 July 1819 Chapel Hill, North Carolina - 19 July 1844 New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author.
Biography
He was a son of physicist Denison Olmsted. He graduated from Yale in 1839. He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.
He wrote Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, published in 1841 at New York City by D. Appleton and Co., the publishers of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
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References
Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Olmsted, Denison". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- Full text of Incidents of a Whaling Voyage - subtitled: "To which are added observations on the scenery, manners and customs, and missionary stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands, accompanied by numerous lithographic prints."
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