James Aldrich was a editor

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 and minor poet

Poet

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Aldrich was born in Mattituck, New York

Mattituck, New York

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, apparently 14 July 1810, and was married in 1836. He was a merchant

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and editor. He founded the short-lived New York Literary Gazette in 1839, and later in 1842-44 worked as an editor on the New World (New York). Much of his poetry was published in his Literary Gazette, and not brought together in a collection until after his death, when his daughter circulated it privately. His poem A Death-Bed is often republished.

He died 9 September 1856.

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