Career
He served in the New York State Senate for the First District in the session of 1852, and served on the advisory board which planned Central Park. He was the author of The American in Egypt: with Rambles Through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, During the Years 1839 and 1840 (New York: Doctorate Appleton & Company, 1842). He died in 1882 at the Bagni di Lucca near Florence, Italy, where he had been residing for several years.
