Folsom, Charles (1794-1872)

Name:

Folsom, Charles (1794-1872)

Title:

charge d'affaires in Tunis in 1817'19.

Born:

12/24/1794

Birthplace:

Exeter, NH

Died:

11/08/1872

Death Location:

Cambridge, MA

Residence:

Had cottage in the religious campground at Alton Bay, NH.

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Scholar
Teacher: Sudbury, MA, Academy at Hallowell, ME, Harvard from 1821 till 1823 & 1825 (Italian)
Librarian: Harvard from 1821-1823, Boston Athenaeum 1845-1856
Teacher (mathematics): Ship " Washington," in 1816.
Champlain U.S. Navy
Editor: " U. S. Literary Gazette'", Boston, MA and New York, NY in 1824, the " Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature" in 1833.

Father:

Folsom, James

Mother:

Gilman, Sarah

Spouse:

McKean, Susannah S.: n. 10/19/1824

Children:

Charles W. (1826-)
Amy S. (1828-1853)
Joseph M. (1830-)
Mary E. (1833-)
Henry M. (1834-1842)
George M. (1837-1882)
Norton (1842-)

Notes:

Member of the firm of Folsom, Wells & Thurston, proprietors of the University press, and was engaged in the examination, correction, and partial editing of various classical works

From 1841 till 1845, with his wife, he conducted a school for young ladies in Boston

Bibliograpghy:

Porter, Alfred Claghorn, et al. "Catalogue of English and American chapbooks and broadside ballads in Harvard College Library" (Cambridge: Library of Harvard University, 1909), 38. Google eBook : https://books.google.com/books?id=AFQbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Susannah+Sarah+Charles+Folsom&source=bl&ots=zqLlu_AeZJ&sig=COa0OZeKgy4FoPW8F-v0-e0IPsU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwA2oVChMIw7K1jMzlyAIVCdUeCh0XdQbb#v=onepage&q=Susannah%20Sarah%20Charles%20Folsom&f=false

Hurd, Duane Hamilton. "History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 2", (J. W. Lewis & Company, 1890), 523. Google eBook: https://books.google.com/books?id=gZ5DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA523&lpg=PA523&dq=Susannah+Sarah+Charles+Folsom&source=bl&ots=6lFP2U5GqY&sig=87R8Q5iPYRPjKauRT03x5syZKIU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAmoVChMIw7K1jMzlyAIVCdUeCh0XdQbb#v=onepage&q=Susannah%20Sarah%20Charles%20Folsom&f=false

Baldwin, Thomas Williams. "Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Volume 2". (Cambridge: Wright & Potter Print Company, 1915), 265. Google eBook: https://books.google.com/books?id=7oQlAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=Susannah+Sarah+Charles+Folsom&source=bl&ots=LG9SbTmEWt&sig=Ih3iPXmi7OMgVYegkYr302WoSqE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAWoVChMIw7K1jMzlyAIVCdUeCh0XdQbb#v=onepage&q=Susannah%20Sarah%20Charles%20Folsom&f=false