William Hoag Bristol

(1828- )

— "lawyer, poet"

William Bristol was born on March 18, 1828 at Ransomville, New York. He edited and published various newspapers in Kankaee, Jamesville, and Galena, Illinois.

[Source: Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 150 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)]