James Matthews Legaré
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James Matthews Legaré was an American poet and failed inventor.
Legaré was a relative of Hugh S. Legaré
. He was by profession an inventor, but whose ill health prevented the commercialization of his devices. He contributed poetry to magazines, and published a single volume, Orta-Undis and other poems in 1848. Orta-undis means "sprung from water".
Legaré was a relative of Hugh S. Legaré
Hugh S. Legaré
Hugh Swinton Legaré was an American lawyer and politician.-Biography:Legaré was born in Charleston, South Carolina, of Huguenot and Scottish ancestry....
. He was by profession an inventor, but whose ill health prevented the commercialization of his devices. He contributed poetry to magazines, and published a single volume, Orta-Undis and other poems in 1848. Orta-undis means "sprung from water".