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Author: Hillhouse, James Abraham

Biography:

Hillhouse, James Abraham (1789-1841: WBIS)

Son of a lawyer who became a US Senator, James Hillhouse, and his wife Rebecca (Woolsey) Hillhouse, James Abraham Hillhouse was born and died in New Haven. Though he entered Yale at the age of thirteen, he left before the end of his first year and did not graduate until 1808. After three years in Boston, he returned to New Haven where he wrote two plays, Demetria (published 1839) and Percy's Masque, the latter published when he travelled to England in 1819. He was engaged in business as a hardware merchant in New York from 1820 to 1822, but gave up business and settled in New Haven after his marriage to an heiress, Caroline Ann Lawrence. They had at least one daughter, Isaphene. Most of his work is contained in two late volumes, Dramas, Discourses, and Other Pieces (1839). (DAB; Appleton; ancestry.com 23 Mar. 2019)

 

Other Names:

  • James A. Hillhouse
  • Signor Giacomo A. Hillhouse
 

Books written (5):

From the London edn. New York: printed by C. S. Van Winkle, 1820
New York: James Eastburn, 1821
New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1825