Alfred Billings Street was an American

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 author

Biography

Street was born in Poughkeepsie

Poughkeepsie (city), New York

Poughkeepsie is a city in the state of New York, United States, which serves as the county seat of Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie is located in the Hudson River Valley midway between New York City and Albany...

, New York

New York

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. His family moved to Monticello

Monticello, New York

Monticello is a village located in the Town of Thompson in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 6,512 at the 2000 census. It is the seat for the Town of Thompson and the county seat of Sullivan County...

 in Sullivan County

Sullivan County, New York

Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 77,547. The county seat is Monticello. The name is in honor of Major General John Sullivan, who was a hero in the American Revolutionary War...

 when he was young, and he was educated at the Dutchess county academy. He studied law with his father, Randall S. Street

Randall S. Street

Randall S. Street was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

, and practiced in Monticello. In 1839 he moved to Albany and edited the Northern Light from 1843 to 1844. He wrote poetry that was published in literary magazines. In 1848 he was appointed New York State Librarian, a position he held until his death. His poems deal with the sights and sounds of the woodland and the life of the more primitive days of the settlement of America. Among his books of verse are:

• The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems (1842)
• Drawings and Tintings (1844)
• Fugitive Poems (1846)
• Frontenac: or The Atotarho of the Iroquois (1849)

His chief prose works are:

• Woods and Waters, or the Saranacs and the Racket (1860)
• The Indian Pass (1869)
• Lake and Mountain; or, Autumn in the Adirondacks (1870)
• Eagle Pine; or, Sketches of a New York Frontier Village (1871)

External links

• Quotes by Alfred Billings Street