PARK BENJAMIN
\pˈɑːk bˈɛnd͡ʒəmɪn], \pˈɑːk bˈɛndʒəmɪn], \p_ˈɑː_k b_ˈɛ_n_dʒ_ə_m_ɪ_n]\
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An American journalist, poet, and lecturer; born at Demerara, British Guiana, Aug. 14, 1809; died in New York, Sept. 12, 1864. He studied law originally. His poems, of a high order of merit, have never been collected. "The Contemplation of Nature", read on taking his degree at Washington College, Hartford, 1829; the satires "Poetry" (1843); "Infatuation" (1845); "The Nautilus"; "To One Beloved"; and "The Old Sexton", are among his works. He was associated editorially with Epes Sargent and Rufus W. Griswold.
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An American lawyer, editor, and miscellaneous writer, son of the preceding; born in New York, May 11, 1849. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy (1867), he served on Admiral Farragut's flagship, but resigned in 1869. As a lawyer he has been a patent expert. He edited the Scientific American (1872-78). He has written: "Shakings; Etchings from the Naval Academy" (1867); "The Age of Electricity" (1886); "The Intellectual Rise in Electricity, a History"; etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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