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 . 08, and was madesergeant. During the following winter he openedan evening school for instruction in writing, arith-metic, and bookkeeping, and with the results ofthis school purcha
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 . 08, and was madesergeant. During the following winter he openedan evening school for instruction in writing, arith-metic, and bookkeeping, and with the results ofthis school purchased editions of Campbell, Burns,and the Spectator. Young Halleck left his Con-necticut home May 1, 1811, for the city of NewYork. Unsuccessful for a time in acquirmg a posi-tion, he was about to depart for Richmond, Va.,when he was introduced to Jacob Barker, one of theleading bankers and most prominent business menof that day, who gave him a place in his counting-room, and this connection continued for twenty 1812 he embarked in the commission business onhis own account, in company with a kinsman of , without severing the relation between him-self and that gentleman, but continued in it a briefperiod only, as the second war with Great Britaincaused great disasters in mercantile circles of NewYork, and the young house of Halleck & Barkerwere among the earliest sufferers, and were forced. <^^ to stop payment. The first poem published in NewYork by Halleck appeared anonymously in thecolumns of Charles Holts Columbian, Dec, 33,1813, and began with the lines,When the bright star of peace from our country -was clouded,Hope fondly presaged it would still the spring of 1814 he joined the Iron Gray voluuteers, made up of 113 of the leading young men ofthe city. This company was duly mustered into thearmy of the United States for sea service ou the At-lantic coast, but was not called on for it, and at theend of ten mouths was mustered out. The begin-nin
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