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(Born: October 25, 1818 - Died: December 1, 1847)
American educator, editor and lecturer. He was born in Westford, NY. He was the fifth of nine children. He graduated from Yale in 1840, and briefly pursued a career as a teacher in Hartford, CT. Abandoning this effort, he took to lecturing on Indians during the seasons of 1842 and 1843. In 1845, he founded the American Review. According to the obituary notice printed in the December 1847 issue, he died of typhus.
Colton’s date of birth is recorded by Colton himself, in a letter of August 22, 1844 to Rufus W. Griswold, published by Wm. Griswold in Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1898, pp. 158-159.
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