dots-menu
×
Home  »  library  »  BIOS  »  Samuel Putnam Waldo (1780–1826)

C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Samuel Putnam Waldo (1780–1826)

Waldo, Samuel Putnam. An American writer and biographer; born in Connecticut in 1780; died in Hartford, CT, March 1826. He wrote: ‘Narrative of a Tour of Observation by President Monroe’ (1818); ‘Memoirs of Andrew Jackson’ (1820); ‘Life of Stephen Decatur’ (1821); ‘Biographical Sketches of Nicholas Biddle, Paul Jones, Edward Preble, and Alexander Murray’ (1823). He edited ‘Journal of the Brig Commerce upon the Western Coast of Africa.’