Joseph Rodman Drake

Joseph Rodman Drake was born in New York in 1795. His father died when he was a child, and his mother, remarried, left for New Orleans, leaving him with relatives. He took his medical degree in 1816, married that same year the daughter of the naval architect Henry Eckford, travelled in Europe, then opened a pharmacy in New York. A friend since his studies of Fitz-Greene Halleck, with whom he published verse satires in a city newspaper in 1819, he belonged to the New York circle of the Knickerbockers. He died in his native city in 1820, at the age of twenty-five.

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• PoetryThe Culprit FayJoseph Rodman Drake · 1816LiteraturePublic domain