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Anthony Bleecker Anthony Bleecker was born in New York City in October 1770. He graduated from Columbia and studied law, but was reputedly never a successful practitioner. For some thirty years he was a contributor of prose and verse to periodicals published in New York and Philadelphia. Bleecker was one of the founders of the New York Historical Society, and was a trustee of the New York Society Library from 1810 until 1826. The poet William Cullen Bryant wrote, "Anthony Bleecker, who read everything that came out, and sometimes wrote for the magazines, was an amusing companion, always ready with his puns, of whom Miss Eliza Fenno, before her marriage to Verplanck in 1811, wrote that she had gone into the country to take refuge from Anthony Bleecker's puns." [Source: Virtual American Biographies] Anthony Bleecker
Writings Francis Ludlow Holt, Law of Libel: In which is contained a general history of this law . . . first American, from the second London edition, with references to American cases (London: Butterworth, 1812)(New York: Stephen Gould, 1818)(Anthony Bleecker, editor of the American edition of this digest of English libel law, adds a selection of American cases to his edition) |
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