The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fessenden, Thomas Green

FESSENDEN, Thomas Green, American author: b. Walpole, N. H., 22 April 1771; d. Boston, 11 Nov. 1837. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1796. He went to London in 1801, and while there published anonymously a satirical poem, &lsquo;Terrible Tractoration&rsquo; (1803). He returned to the United States; did literary work in New York; went to Boston and founded the &lsquo;New England Farmer&rsquo; (1822). Some of his publications were &lsquo;The American Clerk's Companion&rsquo; (1815); &lsquo;The Ladies' Monitor&rsquo; (1818); and &lsquo;Laws of Patents for New Inventions&rsquo; (1822).