Irving, Washington
author, was born April 3, 1783, in New York city. He was the most popular of the earlier American writers of the nineteenth century. Diedrich Knickerbocker's History History of New York, one by which he will be longest remembered, appeared in 1809. Irving spent the years from 1815 to 1832 abroad, portion of the time as secretary of the United States legaa tion at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as minister to Spain. The rest of his life was spent at his home in Tarrytown on the Hudson. His writings not already named include The Sketch Book; Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; The Alhambra; Crayon Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and his Successors; Wolfert's Roost; Life of Washington; and Spanish Papers. He died Nov. 28, 1859, in Irvington, N. Y.