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HILDRETH, RICHARD (18071865)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 463 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HILDRETH, RICHARD (18071865) , American journalist and author, was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, on the 28th of June 1807, the son of Hosea Hildreth (1782-1835), a teacher of mathematics and later a Congregational minister. Richard graduated at Harvard in 1826, and, after studying law at Newburyport, was admitted to the bar at Boston in 183o. He had already taken to journalism, and in 1832 he became
joint
  founder and editor of a daily newspaper, the Boston Atlas. Having in 1834 gone to the
South
  for the benefit of his health, he was led by what he witnessed of the evils of slavery (chiefly in Florida) to write the anti-slavery novel The Slave: or Memoir of Archy Moore (1836; enlarged edition, 1852, The White Slave). In 1837 he wrote for the Atlas a
series
  of articles vigorously opposing the annexation of
Texas
 . In the same year he published Banks, Banking, and
Paper
  Currencies, a
work
  which helped to promote the growth of the free banking system in America. In 1838 he resumed his editorial duties on the Atlas, but in 1840 removed, on account of his health, to British Guiana, where he lived for three years and was editor of two weekly news-papers in succession at Georgetown. He published in this year (1840) a volume in opposition to slavery, Despotism in America (2nd ed., 18J4). In 1849 he published the first three volumes of his History of the United States, two more volumes of which were published in 181 and the
sixth
  and last in 1852. The first three volumes of this history, his most important
work
 , deal with the period 1492-1789, and the second three with the period 1789-1821. The history is notable for its painstaking accuracy and candour, but the later volumes have a strong Federalist bias. Hildreth's Japan as It Was and Is (1855) was at the time a valuable digest of the information contained in other works on that country (new ed., 1906). He also wrote a campaign biography of William
Henry
  Harrison (1839); Theory of Morals (1844) ; and Theory of Politics (1853), as well as Lives of Atrocious Judges (1856), compiled from Lord Campbell's two works. In 1861 he was appointed United States
consul
  at Trieste, but ill-health compelled him to resign and remove to Florence, where he died on the rth of July 1865.


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