| LC control no. | n 50035339 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS1930 PS1938 |
| Personal name heading | Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 1806-1884 |
| Variant(s) | New Yorker, 1806-1884 Hoffman, C. F. (Charles Fenno), 1806-1884 |
| Birth date | 1806-02-07 |
| Death date | 1884-06-07 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Harrisburg (Pa.) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Poets Editors |
| Found in | His The pioneers of New York ... 1848. The poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman, 1873: title page (collected and edited by his nephew, Edward Fenno Hoffman) Wikipedia, May 19, 2020 (Charles Fenno Hoffman; Charles Fenno Hoffman (born February 7, 1806 in New York City, New York; died June 7, 1884 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) was an American author, poet and editor associated with the Knickerbocker Group in New York; he was the son of New York Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman (1766-1837) and his second wife, Maria Fenno (1781-1823, and the grandson of John Fenno, the Federalist editor of the Gazette of the United States; Hoffman's fame rested chiefly upon his poems, first collected in The Vigil of Faith (1842); Hoffman was also popular for his songs, including "Sparkling and Bright" and "Rosalie Clare;" he became the editor of The New-York Book of Poetry, which first attributed A Visit From St. Nicholas to Clement Clarke Moore; he went insane in 1849, supposedly after a servant used his manuscripts to start a fire; he was hospitalized briefly in April 1849 and, after his release, accepted a position with the Department of State in Washington, D.C.; by autumn, however, he was declared permanently insane; he spent the last 30 years of his life in the Harrisburg State Hospital, a state asylum in Pennsylvania) |
| Associated language | eng |
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