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Charles Chauncey Burr

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168: 269:, even poems clearly based on Poe's. Of special value to Poe scholars is an article published in the June 1866 issue, "Poe and his Biographer, Griswold", in which Burr presents documentary evidence that countered some of the criticism leveled against Poe by 258:) and had assisted Poe physically and financially during the latter's visit to Philadelphia, one of his last jaunts before his death. Poe wrote to his mother-in-law on 14 July 1849, thanking Burr for his help, "I am indebted for more than life itself to B 405: 495: 177: 141:) and is credited with having written her autobiography. At some point he acquired the title "Reverend", though scholars do not know how. Jay Hubbell, writing in 440: 339: 230:
After the war, Burr remained active in politics. In an 1866 speech to the Anti-Abolition State Rights Society, he castigated Republicans such as
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note that their questionnaire was not returned; they did know, apparently, that he was a well-known lecturer and had published a newspaper in
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Burr had become good friends with Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry he admired and imitated (in anonymous poems published in
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Joseph George Jr., "'Abraham Africanus I': President Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Copperhead Editor,"
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Copperhead pamphlet from 1864 by Charles Chauncey Burr, a magazine editor from New York City
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and called Whittier "one of the best the purest of all poets". In later issues of the
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A general history of the Burr family: with a genealogical record from 1193 to 1902
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Burr founded a number of magazines including the Philadelphia-based periodical
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Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]
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contains a lengthy invective by Burr against abolitionist preachers such as
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Burr repaid Poe posthumously by publishing a number of pro-Poe articles in
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and his family, and published a number of magazines and newspapers.
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Hubbell, Jay B. (1954). "Charles Chauncey Burr: Friend of Poe".
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Burr had a varied career (he had been the publicity agent for
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Index

Maine
United States
West Hoboken
Hudson County
New Jersey
Journalist
author
publisher
Abolitionism
Copperheads
Celia M. Burleigh
Maine
Edgar Allan Poe
Lola Montez
Ludwig I of Bavaria
Publications of the Modern Language Association
Hoboken, New Jersey

Nineteenth Century
Bergen County, New Jersey
The Old Guard
John Greenleaf Whittier
American Civil War
Copperhead
Henry Ward Beecher
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
mulattoes
1872 Democratic National Convention
Rufus Wilmot Griswold

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