Francis Allyn Olmsted
Perils of Whaling, drawing by Francis Allyn Olmsted, 1841.
The Attack, drawing by Francis Allyn Olmsted, 1841.
The Dying Whale, drawing by Francis Allyn Olmsted, 1841.
Francis Allyn Olmsted (14 July 1819, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – 19 July 1844, in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author.
Biography
He was a son of physicist Denison Olmsted. He graduated from Yale in 1839. He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.
He wrote Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, published in 1841 at New York City by D. Appleton and Co., the publishers of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
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References
Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Olmsted, Denison". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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