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William W. Fosdick was born on January 28, 1825, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Thomas R. Fosdick, a banker. His mother, Julia Drake, was an actress, the daughter of Samuel Drake, and by a later marriage the mother of Julia Dean.
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William W. Fosdick was born on January 28, 1825, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Thomas R. Fosdick, a banker. His mother, Julia Drake, was an actress, the daughter of Samuel Drake, and by a later marriage the mother of Julia Dean.
As a boy Fosdick studied at home under Samuel Johnson; later he attended the Cincinnati College and the Transylvania University in Kentucky.
In the two or three years after Fosdick left college, in addition to writing much poetry, he studied law in Louisville, spent a winter in Mobile, then after further roaming settled down as a lawyer in Cincinnati.
During 1848 - 1849 Fosdick traveled in Texas and Mexico, and in 1851 published in Cincinnati his historical romance, Malmistic the Toltec, and the Cavaliers of the Cross. Its style was ornate and eloquent, but by that, perhaps, he was so much the more definitely recognized as "promising, " and in 1852 he changed his residence to New York.
Fosdick lived there for five or six years, ostensibly a lawyer but in fact somewhat of a litterateur. In 1855 he published Ariel and Other Poems, in which he carried the story of the sprite beyond the record in The Tempest. He had been attracted to the subject, he said, by the remembrance that it was only in this play that Shakespeare had recognized America.
Other themes discussed in the volume were Daniel Boone, William Cullen Bryant, and a New York wedding-feast, handled in parody of the Ancient Mariner.
During his residence in New York Fosdick had two experiences which he specially did not enjoy — the lecture tour which he made through New England on behalf of the Nebraska Emigration Company, and the destruction by fire, in the Harper publishing house, of a manuscript upon which he had put all his hopes of literary distinction.
About 1857 Fosdick returned to live in Cincinnati and there spent his last years. William W. Fosdick died on March 8, 1862, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of thirty-seven.
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William W. Fosdick was the most agreeable personality.