Author: Hill, Frederic Stanhope
Biography:
Hill, Frederic Stanhope (1805-1851: ancestry.com)
He was born in Boston, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bray) Hill, and spent most of his life there. On the death of his father in 1827 he inherited a small fortune but he invested it unwisely in publishing ventures. He was proprietor of a literary journal, The Boston Lyceum, and of a weekly magazine, The Galaxy; he also edited a daily newspaper, the Boston Statesman, from 1827 to 1828, and published occasional titles under his own imprint. In 1828 he married Mary Welland Blake; their only son, Frederic, became a naval officer and writer. By 1832 he was bankrupt and turned to acting, with some success in New York and Philadelphia as well as in Boston. He managed the Warren Theatre in Boston; two melodramas that he adapted from French originals in 1834, The Six Degrees of Crime and The Shoemaker of Toulouse, are said to have been stock pieces in American theatres for almost twenty years. (DAB; ancestry.com 16 Mar. 2019; WorldCat)
Other Names:
- F. S. H.