Background
Legare, James Mathewes was born on November 26, 1823 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
Legare, James Mathewes was born on November 26, 1823 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
Studied painting Saint Mary's College, Baltimore
Legaré was a relative of Hugh South. Legaré. He was by profession an inventor, but whose ill health prevented the commercialization of his devices. He contributed poetry to magazines, and published a single volume, Orta-Undis and other poems in 1848.
Orta-undis means "sprung from water".
Curtis Carroll Davis, That Ambitious Mr. Legaré: The Life of James M. Legaré of South Carolina, Including a Collected Edition of His Verse, (University of South Carolina Press, 1971).