Benjamin Young Prime
(1733-1791) Poet, essayist, songwriter. Benjamin Prime was born on Long Island.
Type: NY State
Charles Henry Webb
(1834-1905) Poet, author, journalist. Charles Henry Webb was born in Rouse’s Point, New York, and died in New York.
Forceythe Willson
(1837-1867) Poet. Forceythe Willson was born in Little Genesee, New York, and died in Alfred, New York.
James Bacon
(1914-2010) Author, journalist. James Bacon was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Northridge, Los Angeles, California. He was a graduate of Syracuse University.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
(1814-1880) Poet. Edwin Hubbell Chapin was born in Union Village, New York, and died in Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Massachusetts. He wrote the poem “Burial at Sea.”
John Vance Cheney
(1848-1922) Poet, essayist. John Vance Cheney was born in Groveland, New York.
Ella Maria Dietz Clymer
(1847-1920) Ella Maria Dietz Clymer was born in New York City and died in Greater London, England.
Jane Elizabeth Conklin
(1831-1914) Poet, religious writer. Jane Elizabeth Conklin was born in and died in Utica, New York.
Richard Dauenhauer
(1942-2014) Poet, linguist, translator. Richard Dauenhauer was born in Syracuse, New York, and died in Juneau, Alaska.
Peter Kane Dufault
(1923-2013) Poet. Peter Kane Dufault was born in New Jersey, and died in Hillsdale, New York.