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Linton, William James

engraver, author, poet, was born in 1812, in London, England. He is an English engraver and poet who came to the United States in 1867 and settled in New Haven. Besides ably editing several poetical anthologies, he is the author of Claribel, and Other Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable History of Wood Engraving in America; 1 The English Republic; The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories; Practical Hints on Wood Engraving; Wood Engraving, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and Three Score and Ten Translations; Years; and Life of Whittier.