Francis Allyn Olmsted
Francis Allyn Olmsted (14 July 1819, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – 19 July 1844, in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author.
Perils of Whaling, drawing by Francis Allyn Olmsted, 1841.
The Attack, drawing by Francis Allyn Olmsted, 1841.
The Dying Whale, drawing by Francis Allyn Olmsted, 1841.
Biography
He was a son of physicist Denison Olmsted. He graduated from Yale in 1839. He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, on the barque North America in 1839 and 1840, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.
He wrote Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, published in 1841 at New York City by D. Appleton and Co., the publishers of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. The voyage was from New London, Connecticut and took in the Azores, Cape Horn, Hawaii, Tahiti as well as the Sandwich Islands, before returning to Sandy Hook.[1]
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North America a bargue (386 tons) built by Stephen Girard (circa 1816).
References
- Olmsted, F. A. (1841). Incidents of a Whaling Voyage. D. Appleton and Co. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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