A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE WOMB, 



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Brifcrrfo J. Batoning. 



Axnnrw Jacksos Dc^rr? ;-. die nasi fiiwt of . 

 of Sural Architecture, was bora in K eobaigb , upon the Hni», ra the 5s*« af Sew York, 



Oct. 30, 181: ^herised * taste fw hortk-nlrsre frwa Ms £uher. wi: > about t 



of the present cattiy ibardoned the occupation of a wheelwright for the 



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 at college, bat. as the eieeutkm of this plan did not l—j lit with : 



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 from am early age. la these eirnrsiane he ntehtid by the hnstructhaar of his i 

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 was nch attached to the sciences which had awakened the 



Downing. When ■ uuhj d with wandering among the hills aad iaBejs of the Hudson. 

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 Lather Tocher, of Albany, to ax— u the duties rtmnrrtfd with the miiiloi hif of T>« 

 culture*, just esxabSshed hi that city. The pnyaJtioa was accepted, aad the 

 tinned aader Mr. Donhg's charge aad his death 

 The adadrable eoatiftatiaau of the editor hare 1 

 185S hi a hmfrw a tf octavo Tx>hcae. edited, with * Mqbmu- of the Author, b j Ge 1 

 Curtis, aad iarNifcg a Letter to Dowaiag s friends by Froder&a Braoer. 

 to which we are inoLbaul for Oe above farcf 



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 death is wefl known. He was one of the Ticsbas oa the mrfiarhnrj ■rmiiaa of the 

 of Ae steanwr Henry Ooy. ear the Hudson, Jv. 



TBing nk»r well be sryied a notional heneiattot. If. is the poet te2s as. 



what gratitnde is doe to that nan who causes the 1 



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