Background
His father was a German, his mother an Alsatian, and he claimed to have been in the English army before he emigrated to New York in 1824.
His father was a German, his mother an Alsatian, and he claimed to have been in the English army before he emigrated to New York in 1824.
lieutenant was a weekly, and for a time enjoyed considerable local influence which gave Denman political prominence. Its support of trusteeism lost it the support of the local ecclesiastical authorities, rival publications were started and its prestige waned until he sold the paper 31 March 1855, to the proprietors of The Irish American, who merged it in that journal a short time after. The youngest son, William, was for some years editor of the New York Tablet.