The Global Syndicator - 1799 births

Benjamin D. Wright

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:32:06 +0000

Benjamin D. Wright was a Florida Lawyer, journalist, and Whig politician who served in Territorial Legislature, the State Senate, and as a Florida Supreme Court justice in 1853, succeeding Walker Anderson. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on January 23, 1799, the son of William and Sarah Ann Wright. He married Josephine De La Rua on February 23, 1826. He owned the Pensacola Gazette from 1834 to 1839 and edited the paper till 1846. He died on April 28, 1874.

Wright was admitted to the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania bar on April 7, 1820. When he was twenty-four, he moved to the Pensacola area. He became friends with and went to work for Richard K. Call, a protégé of Andrew Jackson. In April of 1824 he was appointed to the territorial council. In May, the president appointed him United States Attorney for Middle Florida, and then for West Florida in February of 1826.

Richard Howitt (poet)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:32:07 +0000

Richard Howitt (1799-1869), poet, born at Heanor in Derbyshire in 1799, was the son of Thomas Howitt and Phoebe Tantum. William Howitt, the writer, was his brother and Mary Howitt was William's wife. He spent his earlier years as a pharmacist in Nottingham, at first in partnership with his brother William, but finally on his own account.

Elon Farnsworth (Michigan Attorney General)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:11:59 +0000

Elon Farnsworth (February 2, 1799, Woodstock, Vermont–March 24, 1877, Detroit) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as both Attorney General and Chancellor of the state of Michigan.

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Wacław Michał Zaleski

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:33:26 +0000

Wacław Michał Zaleski (September 18, 1799 in Olesko, eastern Galicia – February 24, 1849 in Vienna), pseudonym Wacław from Olesko (Wacław z Oleska), was a Polish poet, writer, researcher of folklore (folklorist), theatre critic, political activist, governor of Galicia (1848).

Zaleski collected and published in Lviv Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego [Polish and Russian songs of Galician nation] (1833), which contained about 1500 works, including 160 with piano accompaniment composed by Karol Lipiński. It was largest collection of folk-songs published in Poland before Oskar Kolberg.