Edward Tyrell Channing (12 December 1790-8 February 1856), educator and younger brother of the Reverend William Ellery Channing, was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He took a law degree from Harvard Un...
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In an 1893 article Edward Everett Hale suggested "that Harvard College had trained the only men in America who could write the English language and that its ability to do this began with the year 1819...
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Edward Tyrrel Channing was, arguably, the most influential American rhetorician of the nineteenth century. A roster of Channing's students reads like a "Who's Who" of nineteenth-century American lette...
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