Seba Smith (14 September 1792-28 July 1868), journalist and humorist, taught school around his home in Buckfield, Maine, before entering Bowdoin College in 1815. After he graduated in 1818, Smith taug...
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With the creation of Jack Downing (later, Captain, then Major Jack Downing), Seba Smith introduced a new character into the annals of American literature: a comic Yankee who was realistically portraye...
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"Poet and Scholar" reads the epitaph on Seba Smith's gravestone in Patchogue, Long Island, where he died on 28 July 1868. Yet, if remembered at all, Smith would have been known--then and later--for hi...
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Seba Smith