John Blair Linn

Background

Linn, John Blair was born on March 14, 1777 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Rebecca (Blair) Linn.

Education

Graduate Columbia College, 1795. Studied law under Alexander Hamilton.

Career

Church of Philadelphia, 1798-1804. Author: (play) Bourville Castle, or the Gallic Orphan, 1797. (poetry) Miscellaneous Works, Prose and Poetical, by a Young Gentleman of New York, 1795, The Poetical Wanderer, 1796, The Death of George Washington: A Poem in Imitation of the Manner of Ossian, 1800, The Powers of Genius, 1801.

A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Reverend John Ewing, 1802.

Achievements

• John Blair Linn has been listed as a noteworthy poet by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Hester Bailey, 1799, 3 children.

Father:

William Linn

Mother:

Rebecca (Blair) Linn

Spouse:

Hester Bailey