Joel Barlow

Joel Barlow was born in 1754 in Redding, Connecticut. A Yale graduate, he served three years as a chaplain in the Revolutionary army, founded a weekly in Hartford and was called to the bar in 1786. Leaving for Europe in 1788 to sell Ohio lands to emigrants for a company that went bankrupt, he stayed there seventeen years, became a radical republican, befriended Thomas Paine and received French citizenship in 1792. Back in 1805, he was appointed United States minister to France in 1811, followed the retreat from Russia as far as Poland and died there in December 1812.

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• PoetryThe Hasty-PuddingJoel Barlow · 1796LiteraturePublic domain