Henry W. Ellsworth
Henry William Ellsworth (May 14, 1814 – August 14, 1864) was an American attorney, author, poet and diplomat who served as Minister to Sweden.
Life and career[edit]
The grandson of Oliver Ellsworth and son of Henry L. Ellsworth, Henry William Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut on May 14, 1814.[1] He graduated from Yale University in 1834,[2] graduated from the New Haven Law School,[3] and became an attorney in Lafayette, Indiana.[4]
In 1844 he was a Democratic Presidential elector from Indiana.[5] In 1845 he was appointed by President James K. Polk as Minister to Sweden and Norway, and he remained until 1849.[6]
Upon returning to the United States, Ellsworth resumed practicing law, and was retained by Samuel F. B. Morse to handle several lawsuits concerning the validity of Morse's telegraph patents.[7]
Ellsworth was a poet and frequent contributor to The Knickerbocker magazine.[8] His best known poems include "Lines to an Absent Wife" and "The Cholera King".[9] He was also an author of historical and other works, including 1838's "Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana".[10]
Ellsworth died in New Haven, Connecticut on August 14, 1864.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ Arthur Wesley Shumaker, A History of Indiana Literature, 1962, page 51
- ^ William Turner Coggeshall, The Poets and Poetry of the West, 1864, page 316
- ^ Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates, 1870, pages 172 to 173
- ^ Kate Milner Rabb, A Tour Through Indiana in 1840: The Diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia, 1920, page 241
- ^ Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates, 1870, pages 172 to 173
- ^ Joel Myerson, Studies in the American Renaissance, 1991, page 148
- ^ Don Lago, On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America, 2004, page 33
- ^ McBride's Magazine, Literary Men as Diplomatistes, Volume 62, 1898, page 143
- ^ Oliver Hampton Smith, Early Indiana Trials and Sketches, 1858, pages 223 to 224
- ^ Henry William Ellsworth, Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana, 1838, title page
- ^ Yale University, Yale Literary Magazine, 1864, page 184
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- 1814 births
- 1864 deaths
- 19th-century American diplomats
- 19th-century American poets
- Ambassadors of the United States to Sweden
- Indiana Democrats
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- People from Lafayette, Indiana
- People from Windsor, Connecticut
- Yale Law School alumni
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