Author: Knight, Henry Cogswell
Biography:
Knight, Henry Cogswell (1789-1835: WBIS)
pseudonym Arthur Singleton
The elder brother of Frederick Knight (q.v.) and half-brother of Antonio Knight (q.v.), he was probably born in Newburyport MA. His parents on both sides, Elizabeth (Cogswell) and Joseph Knight, were descendants of early settlers of the region; his father was a merchant. His father remarried after the death of his first wife in 1791 or '92 but died himself about 1797 leaving three orphaned sons. The two eldest went to live with their maternal grandparents in Rowley MA. Henry attended Phillips Academy, then enrolled at Harvard, but graduated from Brown in 1812. His first volume of verse appeared in 1809; he was also a regular contributor to periodicals. From 1814 to 1819 he travelled widely across the country; he later published Letters from the South and West, by Arthur Singleton (1824). He was ordained in 1827 but served as a parish priest for only a year or so before moving to the Boston area to live as a man of letters. He never married. He died in Rowley of scarlet fever. (DAB; Appleton)
Other Names:
- H. C. Knight
- Henry C. Knight