Biography

He was born in Boscawen

Boscawen, New Hampshire

Boscawen is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,965 at the 2010 census.-History:The native Pennacook tribe called the area Contoocook, meaning "place of the river near pines." On June 6, 1733, Governor Jonathan Belcher granted it to John Coffin and 90...

, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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, became an apprentice in the office of the New Hampshire Patriot in 1809 and in 1812 edited the Concord

Concord, New Hampshire

The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695....

 Gazette. In 1814 moved to Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States. It is the largest city but only the fourth-largest community in the county, with a population of 21,233 at the 2010 census...

, where he had charge of the New Hampshire Gazette. After this he settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...

, and for two years managed the Haverhill Gazette. In May, 1817, he founded and edited the Essex Patriot, with which journal he remained connected until 1821, when he was invited to Boston and there founded the Statesman, a prominent Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 organ. He was for 15 years postmaster

Postmaster

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 of Boston.

He published several translations:

• Sforzosi's History of Italy (1836)
• Tales from the German (1837)
• Tales from the German
  German language
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  , Italian
  Italian language
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  , and French
  French language
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  (1843)
• Improvisation
  Improvisation
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  s and Translation
  Translation
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  s (1852)

From 1849 until 1861, he resided in Paris

Paris

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, and on his return settled in Boston. He contributed more than two hundred poems to various Boston journals, which appeared over the pen name

Pen name

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 of “Boscawen.”

Family

His brother was Charles Gordon Greene

Charles Gordon Greene

Charles Gordon Greene was an American journalist.-Biography:Greene was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire.He was the brother of Nathaniel Greene, in whose care he was placed on the death of his father in 1812, and who sent him to the Bradford Academy...

, also a noted journalist. His son William Batchelder Greene

William Batchelder Greene

William Batchelder Greene was a 19th century individualist anarchist, Unitarian minister, soldier and promotor of free banking in the United States.-Biography:...

was a noted author and abolitionist.

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