Name Francis Olmsted Role Author | Parents Denison Olmsted | |
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Died 1844, New Haven, Connecticut, United States | ||
Francis Allyn Olmsted (14 July 1819, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – 19 July 1844, in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author.
Biography
He was a son of physicist Denison Olmsted. He graduated from Yale in 1839. He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.
He wrote Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, published in 1841 at New York City by D. Appleton and Co., the publishers of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
References
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