George Washington Frost MELLEN

Male 1804 - 1875  (70 years)


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  1. 1.  George Washington Frost MELLEN was born on 28 Jun 1804 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1875.

    Other Events:

    • Fact: 1841

    Notes:

    An Unrecorded Winslow Homer Lithograph
    David Tatham
    American Art Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1987) , pp. 75-76
    "is a portrait of the Boston chemist George Washington Frost Mellen (1804-1875), a prominent if some- what eccentric figure in the New England ..."

    ..."He was flamboyantly eccentric, if not mad."...

    ..."Henry B. Stanton, Random Recollections (New York: Harper, 1887), 70."

    Occupation:
    Chemist

    Fact:
    Wrote "An Argument On The Unconstitutionality Of Slavery", Boston: Saxton & Pierce



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