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Alfred Langdon Elwyn was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Langdon) Elwyn. His maternal grandfather was John Langdon, governor of New Hampshire and presiding officer of the first United States Senate.
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Alfred Langdon Elwyn was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Langdon) Elwyn. His maternal grandfather was John Langdon, governor of New Hampshire and presiding officer of the first United States Senate.
Alfred grew up amid surroundings of wealth and social distinction, attended Phillips Exeter Academy (1816), and afterward went to Harvard, from which in 1823 he was graduated.
After this, he spent several years in Europe attending the lectures of celebrated physicians, but returned to America in time to be graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1831.
He did not actively engage in his profession, but having means for the indulgence of his whims delved into various topics, especially history, philology, and botany.
He acquired a valuable library of sources for American history, and from it made repeated gifts to historical societies in New England.
His Papers Relating to Public Events in Massachusetts Preceding the American Revolution, a series of original documents which he had collected, appeared in 1856.
In 1859 he published A Glossary of Supposed Americanisms.
Convinced that New England was almost purely English in origin, in this work he chides British critics of America for their failure to recognize in American speech a language often more historically correct than their own.
The chief cause of provincialisms on the western side of the Atlantic, he said, is the lack of a standard.
He wrote, for private circulation among his friends, a religious poem said to give a vivid impression of his faith and piety.
Two volumes sometimes ascribed to him, Letters by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Others, Written During and After the Revolution, to John Langdon, New Hampshire (1880), and Letters by Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, and Others, Written Before and During the Revolution (1889), were in fact compiled by his son, of the same name (letter to this effect written by the son to the Librarian of Congress, July 21, 1916).
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“The people of England have Parliament filled with men of the best education to be their standard; the people of this Country will hardly look to their National Legislature for an example in the use of language or of national refinement” (Glossary, p. 11).
Quotations: The chief cause of provincialisms on the western side of the Atlantic, he said, is the lack of a standard. “The people of England have Parliament filled with men of the best education to be their standard; the people of this Country will hardly look to their National Legislature for an example in the use of language or of national refinement” (Glossary, p. 11).
He was president of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, the School for Feeble Minded Children, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the state agricultural society.
He was married in 1832 to Mary Middleton Mease, by whom he had two children, one becoming a clergyman and another the wife of S. Weir Mitchell.
