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Brent, Henry Johnson

author, was born in 1811 in Washington, D. C. He contributed to Porter's Spirit of the Times, over the well-known signature of Stirrup, and was the associate of Lewis Gaylord Clark in founding and editing the Knickerbocker, a magazine that enjoyed great popularity from 1833 until 1864. He was also a painter. His best literary work was Life Almost Alone, published as a serial in the Knickerbocker, and Was it a Ghost? a theory and discussion of the celebrated murder of the Joyce children. He died Aug. 3, 1880, in New York city.