Author: Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln
Biography:
FAIRFIELD, Sumner Lincoln (1803-44: WBIS)
He was born in Warwick MA to Abner and Lucy (Lincoln) Fairfield. His father was a physician. He attended Brown University from 1818 to 1820 and then taught for two years in Georgia and South Carolina. He moved to New York to pursue a literary career, and travelled in Europe for a year in 1825. On his return in 1826, he married Jane Frazee; they had five children. He had difficulty making a living, working variously as a teacher, an actor, and a journalist, in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. In 1832 in Philadelphia he founded a monthly, the North American Magazine--soon successfully rebranded as the North American Quarterly Magazine. Increasingly discouraged and unwell, however, he sold the magazine in 1838. He died in New Orleans. (ANBO 28 Nov. 2018) HJ
Other Names:
- S. L. Fairfield
- Sumner L. Fairfield