Bristed, Charles Astor
(male)
10/06/1820 - 01/14/1874
American
Trinity College, Cambridge; Yale University
Literary critic and writer on English university life; wrote over 200 articles in various periodicals including Fraser's Magazine; wrote The Upper Ten Thousand: Sketches of American Society (1852). See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon
(male)
11/27/1848 - 01/31/1932
American
Yale University
Physicist; expert in optics; Professor of Physics at Yale University; designed large telescopes; his work is mentioned in the Atheneaum in 1881.
Percival, James Gates
(male)
09/15/1795 - 05/02/1856
American
Yale University
Poet, medical doctor, and geologist; published collected poems in 1823; assisted Webster with American dictionary.
Schuyler, Eugene
(male)
02/26/1840 - 07/16/1890
American
Yale University
Diplomat and scholar; translated Turgenev and Tolstoy; American consul in Moscow; travelled in Central Asia.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Stevens, Henry
(male)
08/24/1819 - 02/28/1886
American
Yale University; Harvard University
Bibliophile, antiquarian, and catalogist; worked in London as collector of Americana for the British Museum; produced The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, 1877 (1878) and other works.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker
(male)
01/20/1806 - 01/20/1867
American
Yale University
Poet and editor; foreign correspondent for the New York Mirror; wrote numerous books of sketches including Pencillings by the Way (1835), Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil (1845).
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)