Background
Child, David Lee was born on July 8, 1794 in West Boylston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Zachariah and Lydia (Bigelow) Child.
Child, David Lee was born on July 8, 1794 in West Boylston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Zachariah and Lydia (Bigelow) Child.
Graduated from Harvard, 1817.
Child worked for some time as the sub-master of the Boston Latin School. He went to Belgium in 1836 to study the beet sugar industry, and afterward received a silver medal for the first manufacture of the sugar in the United States. He also published ten articles on the same subject (Philadelphia, 1836).
During a visit to Paris in 1837 he addressed an elaborate memoir to the Société pour l"abolition d"esclavage, and sent a paper on the same subject to the editor of the Eclectic Review in London.
John Quincy Adams was much indebted to Child"s facts and arguments in the speeches that he delivered in congress on the Texan question. Child died in Wayland, Massachusetts on September 18, 1874.
Child edited the Massachusetts Journal, about 1830, and while a member of the legislature denounced the annexation of Texas, afterward publishing a pamphlet on the subject, entitled Naboth"s Vineyard. He was an early member of the anti-slavery society, and in 1832 addressed a series of letters on slavery and the slave trade to Edward South. Abdy, an English philanthropist.
Married Lydia Maria Francis, October 1828.