Author: Bulfinch, Benjamin S.
Biography:
BULFINCH, Benjamin S. (d 1840: National Intelligencer)
The title-page of Georgia describes him as "an American traveller." In 1809 he published a treatise on The Excellence of the Christian Religion which included a few poems. In 1819 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Beauland, presumably a widow, in Richmond VA. He was not a brother of the Bostonians Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (q.v.) and Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867), the mythographer. A death notice originally published in The Wheeling Times and picked up by the National Intelligencer provides useful information. He drowned in the Licking River near Newark NJ "a few days" before 18 Apr. 1840. He was by then "an aged journeyman printer . . . known from Maine to Georgia," who "had been in every State and principal town in the Union," travelling with a "pack of verses." The notice adds that he expected his verses "would be published as soon as he died."(ancestry.com 4 Jan. 2018, 24 July 2025; National Intelligencer [Washington DC] 18 April. 1840; information from AA) HJ
Other Names:
- Benj. S. Bulfinch