Francis Allyn Olmsted
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Francis Allyn Olmsted was an American
author.
. 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.
United States
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author.
Biography
He was a son of physicist Denison OlmstedDenison Olmsted
Denison Olmsted , U.S. physicist and astronomer, was born at East Hartford, Connecticut. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.-Biography:In 1813, he graduated from Yale...
. He graduated from Yale
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in 1839. He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands
Sandwich Islands
Sandwich Islands was the name given to the Hawaiian Islands by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770s. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a supporter of Cook's voyages...
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
New York City
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by D. Appleton and Co., the publishers of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
External links
- Full text of Incidents of a Whaling Voyage - subtitled: "To which are added observations on the scenery, manners and customs, and missionaryMissionaryA missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
stations of the SandwichHawaiiHawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
and Society IslandsSociety IslandsThe Society Islands are a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. They are politically part of French Polynesia. The archipelago is generally believed to have been named by Captain James Cook in honor of the Royal Society, the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands;...
, accompanied by numerous lithographicLithographyLithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...
prints."