Hildreth, Richard
journalist, author, was born June 22, 1807, in Deerfield, Mass. He was a Boston journalist and historian who was consul at Trieste in his later years. He was the author of Archy Moore, an anti-slavery novel; History of Banks Banks; Theory of Politics; Despotism in America; Japan as it Was and Is; and History of the United States from the Discovery of the Continent to the Close of the Sixteenth Congress in 1820, a work which has few charms of style, though its general merit is unquestioned. He died July 11, 1865, in Florence, Italy.
HILDRETH, SAMUEL PRESCOTT, physician, author, was born Sept. 30, 1783, in Methuen, Mass. He was a physician once prominent in Marietta, Ohio, where he settled in 1806. He was the author of History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio; Lives of the Early Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Early History of the Northwest; Meteorological Observations (with J. Wood); Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley (1848); and Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio. He died July 24, 1863, in Marietta, Ohio.