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Person Detail: William Cullen Bryant
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| Full Name: William Cullen Bryant | ||
| Biography: (1794-1878) Writer, poet, editor. William Cullen Bryant was born in Massachusetts. Mr. Bryant lived at 428-343 Lafayette Street and 24 West 16th Street in Manhattan, New York. Bryant became a recognized poet early in life, then was admitted to the bar in 1815. He practiced law in Massachusetts for ten years, then moved to New York City. He became associate editor of the "New York Evening Post" in 1826, and then became part owner and editor in chief in 1829. Cedermere House, where he lived from 1843 until his death in 1878, is located on Bryant Avenue in Roslyn Harbor, New York. (It is open weekends in May through early November. Admission is free.) He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, Northern Boulevard, Greenvale, New York. Bryant Library, Paper Mill Road has a collection of Bryant's manuscripts. Bryant Park, behind the main branch of the New York Public Library, was named after him. |
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| 1825 |
New York County William Cullen Bryant moved to Manhattan, New York, in 1825. |
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| 1794 |
(Unknown) County William Cullen Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, in 1794. |
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| 1878 |
New York County William Cullen Bryant died in New York, New York in 1878. |
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| 1817 |
(Unknown) County Thanatopsis Poem. |
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| 1815 |
(Unknown) County To A Waterfowl Poem. |
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| 1878 |
Nassau County William Cullen Bryant is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, Northern Boulevard, Greenvale, New York. |
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| 1821 |
(Unknown) County Poems Collection of poetry. |
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| 1884 |
New York County Bryant Park, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, in Manhattan, is named in Bryant's honor. |
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| 1829 |
(Unknown) County Bryant was editor and part owner of the New York Evening Post from 1829-1878. |
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| 1842 |
(Unknown) County The Fountain and Other Poems Collection of poetry. |
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| 1844 |
(Unknown) County The White-Footed Deer and Other Poems Collection of poetry. |
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| 1850 |
(Unknown) County Letters of a Traveller; or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America Collection of letters. |
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| 1864 |
(Unknown) County Thirty Poems Collection of poetry. |
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Nassau County Bryant lived in Roslyn Harbor, New York. |
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