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John Hewitt was born on July 11, 1801, in New York City, New York, United States, the eldest son of James and Eliza (King) Hewitt.
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John Hewitt was born on July 11, 1801, in New York City, New York, United States, the eldest son of James and Eliza (King) Hewitt.
John's family moved to Boston while he was a child, and there he received a common-school education and was apprenticed to a sign-painter. In 1818 he received an appointment to the military academy at West Point. While he was a cadet he studied music under the leader of the academy band and at the end of his course resigned to take up his father’s profession.
As a member of a theatrical company organized by his father, John Hewitt found himself in Augusta, Georgia, when the venture failed, and remained in that city as a teacher of music. In 1823 he moved to Columbia, South Carolina, and from there to Greenville, in the same state, where he read law in the office of Judge Thompson, and where he established a paper known first as the Republican and later as the Mountaineer. In 1828 Hewitt went to Baltimore, where for some years journalism distracted him from his interest in music. In 1829 he was associated with Rufus Dawes in the editorship of the Baltimore Minerva and Emerald, which in July 1830, became the Minerva and Saturday Post and was edited by Hewitt alone.
In February 1832 Charles F. Cloud established a literary weekly, the Baltimore Saturday Visitor, under the editorship of Lambert Wilmer, who was succeeded in a few months by Hewitt. In the summer of 1833 the proprietor offered prizes of one hundred dollars for the best story and fifty dollars for the best poem contributed to its columns. Edgar Allan Poe won the hundred-dollar prize with his “MS. Found in a Bottle’’ and with it the friendship and literary guidance of John P. Kennedy, one of the judges. The poetry prize, for which the choice lay between Poe’s “The Coliseum” and Hewitt’s “The Song of the Wind, ” entered under the pseudonym Henry Wilton, was awarded to Hewitt, partly, it would seem, because the judges did not wish to award both prizes to one person. This decision displeased Poe and was a source of controversy between himself and Hewitt.
In 1835 the Visitor changed hands, and in 1839 Hewitt became editor and part owner of a daily newspaper, the Baltimore Clipper. The next year he sold his interest and moved to Washington. In the capital Hewitt resumed the teaching of music and enjoyed the favor of Henry Clay, whose political views he supported with his pen.
Hewitt soon returned to Baltimore and remained in that city until the beginning of the Civil War, when he went South. Living in Richmond for a time, he made use of his military training by serving as a drill-master, and then he moved to Savannah, where he edited the Evening Mirror. At the close of the war he taught music in various southern cities and returned early in the seventies to Baltimore, which was his home until his death.
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John Hewitt was twice married. Not long after leaving West Point he married Estella Mangin, the daughter of Major Mangin, of the French army. She died in 1863, leaving seven children. His second wife was Alethia Smith, of Savannah, Georgia, who was eighteen at the time of her marriage. She bore him four children.