Background
Hillhouse, James Abraham was born on September 26, 1789 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of James and Rebecca (Woolsey) Hillhouse.
Hillhouse, James Abraham was born on September 26, 1789 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of James and Rebecca (Woolsey) Hillhouse.
Bachelor of Arts with high honors, Yale, 1808, Master of Arts, 1811.
Author: The Education of a Poet, 1811, The Judgment, 1812, Percy’s Masque, 1820, Hadad, 1825, Some Considerations which should Influence an Epic or a Tragic Writer in the Choice of an Era, 1826, Relations of Literature to a Republican Government, 1836, Demetria (written 1813, published 1839). Almost all his writings appeared in Dramas, Discourses and Other Pieces, 1839.
Married Cornelia Lawrence, 1822.