206 History of H Ingham. 



Society, 1843-44 ; editor of " The National Anti-Slavery Standard," 

 New York, from 1844 to 1858; editorial writer on "The New 

 York Tribune," 1858-62; managing-editor of "The New York 

 Tribune," 1862-66 ; managing-editor of " The Chicago Tribune," 

 1868-71 ; on the editorial staff of " The New York Evening Post," 

 1872-74. Contributed articles and reviews to the " New York 

 Critic," "New York Times," "London Spectator," "Atlantic 

 Monthly," and other standard periodicals, chiefly of late years 

 on historical subjects ; also to our local newspaper in 1842-43. 

 Besides his anti-slavery speeches Mr. Gay delivered several lec- 

 tures, among them one on Toussaint I/Ouverture, and one on 

 Landscape Gardening. Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, 

 June 25^ 1888. 



His published works include, — 



Our Old Burial Grounds. 



A church-yard 

 Besprinkled o'er with green and countless graves 

 And mossy tombs of unambitious pomp, 

 Decaying into dust again. — R. Montgomery. 



Hingham. Published for the Cemetery Fair, held Wednesday, Aug. 17, 

 1842. S. N. Dickinson, Printer, Washington Street, Boston. Con- 

 tains Plan of the Burying Place sold by Joshua Tucker to persons 

 therein named. (Copies are rare.) 



During the winter, after the great fire of October, 1871, Mr. 

 Gay acted with the Chicago Relief Committee and in the follow- 

 ing spring wrote a report of their great work of the preceding six 

 months, which with certain additions by another hand bringing 

 it up to date, formed the octavo volume entitled, — 



Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society of the disbursement of Con- 

 tributions for the Sufferers by the Chicago Fire. Printed for the Chicago 

 Aid and Relief Society, at the Riverside Press. 1874. 



A Popular History of the United States, from the first discovery of the 

 Western Hemisphere by the Northmen to the end of the Civil War. 

 Preceded by a sketch of the Pre-historic Period and the Age of the 

 Mound- Builders. By William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard Gay. 

 New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1881. 4 vols. Royal octavo. 

 Fully illustrated. 



Mr. Gay was invited to undertake this work at the request of 

 Mr. Bryant, who gave it the sanction of his name and his careful 

 perusal before publication, besides contributing the " Introduc- 

 tion " to Vol. I. He died after the completion of Vol. II., and 

 Mr. Gay became thereafter solely responsible for the book. He 

 received able assistance from well-known writers whom he men- 

 tions in his " Preface " to Vol. II. and his " Introductory " to 

 Vol. IV. ; but the authorship was mainly his, and he edited the 

 whole. 



James Madison. For the American Statesman Series, edited by John T. 

 Morse, Jr. Boston. Houghton, Mifflin, and Company. New York. 

 The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1884. 



