The Life and Times of Henry Clay; Volume 02

by Calvin Colton

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514 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2013

About the author

1789-1857

From website below:

Calvin Colton
COLTON, Calvin, clergyman, born in Long-meadow, Massachusetts, in 1789; died in Savannah, Georgia, 13 March, 1857. He was graduated at Yale in 1812, and at Andover seminary in 1815, and settled over the Presbyterian church in Batavia, New York Subsequently he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, but relinquished preaching in 1826 from failure of his voice. After a long tour through the United States, he went to England in 1831, as correspondent of the New York "Observer," and remained four years. After his return to the United States he took orders in the Episcopal church, and published "Thoughts on the Religious State of the Country, and Reasons for Preferring Episcopacy." But he soon resumed the journalistic profession, and distinguished himself as a writer of political tracts and articles advocating the principles of the Whig party.
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