David Baratier was born in Schenectady, New York. Various pieces have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Poet Lore, Slipstream, Quarter After Eight, Riverwind, Phoebe, and many others. His poems are anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, from Carnegie Mellon UP; Red, White & Blues, Univ of Iowa Press and others. Collections include A Run … Continued
(1872-1956) Writer, collector of Native American literature and artifacts, cartoonist, publisher. “Puck.” Joseph Keppler, Jr. took over the magazine after his father’s death. He lived in Inwood, New York.
(1859-1937) Linguist,ethnographer. Born in Lewiston, New York, the son of part Tuscarora mother and a Scottish father he grew up to be a linguist and an ethnographer for the Department of Indian Affairs. Specializing in the study of Iroquoian dialects, he contributed to the “Handbook of the American Indians North of Mexico” by Frederick Webb … Continued
(1815-1882) Essayist, speech writer, clergyman. Born a slave in Maryland, he escaped with family to New York City in 1824. He was educated at the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, New York. He wrote the very important speech/essay “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America.” It called upon slaves to rise up against … Continued
(1819-1897) Editor, newspaperman. He and his associates bought the New York Sun in 1868 and made the paper famous for its literary quality and editorials. At the age of 24 he joined the staff of the New York Tribune and later became its managing editor. He resigned in 1862 because he disagreed with HORACE GREELEY … Continued
(1925-2005) Journalist. Was a student at Columbia University and friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; he stabbed and killed David Kammerer in 1944.
(1858-1919) Historian, naturalist, statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City and made his home, for many years, at “Sagamore Hill” in Oyster Bay, New York.
(1860-1916) Poet. Frank Dempster Sherman was born in Peekskill, New York and attended Peekskill Military Academy. His home, from 1871 to 1887 was at 953 Paulding. He was the author of “Madrigals and Catches.”
(1819-1899) Writer, Novelist. E. D. E. N. Southworth visited her son at 103 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York. She wrote over sixty novels.
(1857-1934) Playwright. He was a special writer and illustrator on St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York newspapers, and became editor and proprietor of the “Kansas City Mirror” in 1899. He soon left the field of journalism and became a playwright. He is the author of the popular dramas “Arizona,” “In Mizzoura,” “The Burglar,” “The … Continued