death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
09 september 1856 mattituck , new york 14 july 1810 james aldrich
 james aldrich
james aldrich

james aldrich -lrb- 1810 -- 1856 -rrb- was an editor and minor poet .
aldrich was born in mattituck , new york , apparently 14 july 1810 , and was married in 1836 .
he was a merchant and editor .
he founded the short-lived `` new york literary gazette '' in 1839 , and later in 1842 -- 44 worked as an editor on the `` new world '' -lrb- new york -rrb- .
much of his poetry was published in his `` literary gazette '' , and not brought together in a collection until after his death , when his daughter circulated it privately .
his poem `` a death-bed '' is often republished .
he died 9 september 1856 .
