Name Samuel Knapp Role Author | Education Dartmouth College | |
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Died July 8, 1838, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States Books The life of Thomas Eddy, Lectures on American, Life of Lord Timothy Dexter: E, Biographical Sketches of Eminent, Memoirs of General Lafayette | ||
Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (19 January 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts – 8 July 1838 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts) was a United States author and lawyer.
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Biography
He 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. In 1816, he was imprisoned for debt, upon his release from prison in 1817, he moved to Boston.
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.
Works
His 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.”