Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People

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(Born: March 4, 1800 - Died: October 18, 1846)

American editor, educator and author. He married Caroline Kirkland on January 10, 1828. He was a professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, which had originally been founded by his grandfather, Samuel Kirkland, in 1793 as Hamilton-Oneida Academy. William Kirkland founded and edited the Christian Inquirer, a weekly Unitarian newspaper. Kirkland was apparently somewhat deaf and near-signed, and walked off a pier. His death was the result of drowning. Originally buried in Marble Cemetery, in New York, his remains were eventually moved to Green-Wood Cemetery.

Criticism:

Notice from “The Literati”
- “William Kirkland” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. I) — May 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book (reprinted in the June 1846 issue)
- “William Kirkland” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS

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Bibliography:

Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
Reece, James B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the “Literati” Sketches and of Poe’s Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.
Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 3:555-556 (in an entry for Samuel Kirkland)

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