| LC control no. | n 50017803 |
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| LC classification | PS704 PS705 |
| Personal name heading | Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812 |
| Variant(s) | Citizen of New-York, 1754-1812 |
| Birth date | 17540324 |
| Death date | 18121224 |
| Place of birth | Redding, Conn. |
| Place of death | Poland |
| Affiliation | Yale University |
| Found in | Strictures on Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible," 1796 t.p. (by a Citizen of New-York) Evans, C. Amer. bibl., 1929: (attributes to Barlow) Joel Barlow, 2011: ECIP t.p. (b. March 24, 1754; d. Dec. 24, 1812), American poet and politician, born in Redding, Fairfield County, Conn.; graduated from Yale Univ. in 1778, was a post-graduate student there for two years, and from September 1780 until the close of the Revolutionary War was chaplain in a Massachusetts brigade; in 1783, removed to Hartford, Conn., established there in July 1784 a weekly paper, the American Mercury, with which he was connected for a year, and in 1786 was admitted to the bar; author of poetry and satirical political essays; the poem for which he is now best known is his mock heroic Hasty Pudding (1793); his activity in his career included serving as the American consul at Algiers in 1795-1797, securing the release of American prisoners held for ransom, and negotiating a treaty with Tripoli (1796); d. 1812 in Poland, where he is buried) |
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