Child, David Lee
journalist, was born July 8, 1794, in West Boylston, Mass.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1817; was secretary of legation in Lisbon about 1820, and was admitted to the bar. He edited the Massachusetts Journal about 1830, and while a member of the legislature denounced the annexation of Texas, afterward publishing a pamphlet on the subject, entitled Naboth's Vineyard. With his wife he edited the Anti-Slavery Standard in New York in 1843-44. He was distinguished for the independence of his character, and the boldness with which he denounced social wrongs. He died Sept. 18, 1874, in Wayland, Mass.