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Thomas Aspinwall (consul)

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While in London, Aspinwall acted as a literary agent and a liaison between American authors and British publishers. The American historian and
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and eventually a colonel on account of his valor in the battle of Sackett Harbor. In September 1814, during the
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He married Louise Elizabeth Poignand on February 13, 1814, and they had seven children.
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in 1804 and graduated three years later, delivering the Latin valedictory address.
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Thomas was born to Dr. William Aspinwall and Susanna Gardner in
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Burials at Walnut Hills Cemetery (Brookline, Massachusetts)
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions, from 1869–1879
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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United States consul
Brookline
Boston
Walnut Street Cemetery
Harvard College

Colonel
United States consul
Brookline, Massachusetts
Harvard College
War of 1812
major
Ninth Regiment, U.S. Infantry
lieutenant-colonel
Siege of Fort Erie
Madison
London
recess
Hispanist
William Prescott
Washington Irving
abolitionist
Lewis Tappan
Boston
Walnut Street Cemetery


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