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Author: Waldron, William W.

Biography:

WALDRON, William Watson (c. 1798-1878: New York Tribune)

He may have been born in Dublin but no records have been located. His mother’s surname before marriage was Watson; she was a sister of Margaret Watson, mother of the artist Francis Danby. Waldron earned his BA from Trinity College Dublin in 1819. His first publication was Monody on the Death of Her Late Excellency Countess Talbot (1820); it was advertised in the Dublin Freeman’s Journal but no copy has been located. “Emmeline,” named on the title page of Ode, has not been identified. His manuscript autobiography from about 1836, “Sketches of a Traveller,” is in Yale (Beinecke) and dates his departure from Ireland for London to 1825. He stayed with Danby in London but in about 1828 he emigrated to New York where he seems to have lived in Westchester. Other publications include Pocahontas, Princess of Virginia, and Other Poems (1841), Washington Irving and his Cotemporaries [sic] (1863), The Huguenots of Westchester (1864), and Atala; or Love in a Desert…and Other Poems (1874?). Atala reprints his 1821 Ode. He contributed verse to periodicals, including the Westchester Herald. He died at St. Luke’s Hospital, New York City, on 17 July 1878; the death notice states that he was in his eighty-third year. Although there are newspaper notices of a William W. Waldron marrying Mary Peavy in Strafford NH in 1848, it is not certain this is the same Waldron. (ODNB for Francis Danby 16 Dec. 2021; Catalogue of Graduates who have Proceeded to Degrees in the University of Dublin [1869]; Yale [Beinecke] Catalogue entry for MSS 735; Westchester Herald 5 Apr. 1853; Dover Enquirer [Dover NH] 26 Sept. 1848; New York Tribune 18 July 1878)

 

Other Names:

  • Wm. W. Waldron
 

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