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Author: Mansfield, Joseph

Biography:

MANSFIELD, Joseph (1771-1830: Hollis)

His parents were Elizabeth (Whittemore) and Richard Mansfield. Born in Lynn MA, he graduated from Harvard in 1801, studied medicine, and spent the rest of his life as a physician and schoolteacher in Groton MA. In 1805 he married Abi Hartwell, with whom he had at least one son, who also became a physician. His university prize poem, his only published work, was reprinted in 1821, 1871, and c 1879. (Samuel Abbott Green, The Physicians and Dentists of Groton Massachusetts [1890] 14-17; ancestry.com 5 Jan. 2020)

 

 

Books written (2):

Hope, a Poem, Delivered in the Chapel of Harvard University, at a Public Exhibition, July 8th, 1800.

Cambridge [MA]: printed by William Hilliard, 1800

Hope; a Poem, Delivered . . . . To Which are Annexed the Tears of Science, and Henry; or, the Exile's Adieu.

Haverhill [MA]: printed by Burrill and Hersey, 1821