The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGBAPHY. 17. I/^^zCot-^^^JT ^^^??^^2^-^-7-) IRVIHG, Washington, author, called TheFather of American Literature, was born in NewYork city Apr. 3, 1783, the son of Wil
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGBAPHY. 17. I/^^zCot-^^^JT ^^^??^^2^-^-7-) IRVIHG, Washington, author, called TheFather of American Literature, was born in NewYork city Apr. 3, 1783, the son of William Irving,a native of the Orkney Islands, and of Sarah Sanders,his wife. William Irving was a seafaring man, whofor a time had employment upon a British vesselrunning between Falmouth and New York, andmarried his wife at the former port in 1761. Two_ years later he settled in New York, with which city he hadbecome acquainted during hisseveral voyages thereto, andstarted in business for him-self, as is stated, in Williamstreet, near Fulton. Herewere born to these two, elevenchildren, of whom Washing-ton Irving was the the revolution, thefamily suffered from the trou-bles consequent to such acondition, and at one timewere obliged to flee to NewJersey, where they lived for awhile, returning to New Yorkafterward, and residing in acomfortable old house witlamany gables, not far fromJohn street. It is said that,in his
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