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Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (19 January 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts – 8 July 1838 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts) was an American author and lawyer. BiographyHe graduated from Dartmouth College in 1804, studied law with Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons, and became an eminent lawyer. During the War of 1812, he commanded a regiment of militia on the coast defences. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature from 1812 to 1816. Knapp was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814.[1] In 1816, he was imprisoned for debt, upon his release from prison in 1817, he moved to Boston.[2] He became editor of the Boston Gazette in 1824, also conducting the Boston Monthly Magazine. In 1826 he established the National Republican, which failed two years later, and he returned to practicing law in New York City. He was given the degree of LL.D. from the Paris College.[3] WorksHis works, which are chiefly biographical, include:
He edited "The Library of American History" (New York, 1837). He was the author of a variety of occasional public addresses. George Harvey Genzmer, in evaluating his biographies in the Dictionary of American Biography, calls him "ornate, laudatory, and patriotic, and wholly untrustworthy."[2] Notes1. ^American Antiquarian Society Members Directory 2. ^1 {{Cite DAB |last=Genzmer |first=George Harvey |title=Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo |year=1933}} 3. ^{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo}} 4. ^{{ws|George Frisbie Whicher, "Early Essayists," Book II, Chapter III, in William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, and Carl Van Doren, eds., The Cambridge History of American Literature, 1917-1921}} References
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