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William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

William Cullen Bryant

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Peter Bryant 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Snell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Nov 1794 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jun 1878 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, Nassau, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • American “Fireside” Poet, journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post

    William Cullen Bryant is often listed among the Fireside Poets. The group consisted of the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets. It is often said to include John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

• Marriages for William Cullen Bryant

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  • Spouse:
  • Frances Fairchild

• Sources for William Cullen Bryant

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/06/2015).
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20, 181.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 171.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "William Cullen Bryant", (accessed 03/06/2015).