| James Gates Percival Born: 15-Sep-1795 [1]
Birthplace: Kensington, CT
Died: 2-May-1856
Location of death: Hazel Green, WI
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Clio
[1] Julius H. Ward, The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival (1866), page 521-22. These two pages of genealogy are given as an appendix. Here, 15 September 1795 appears as his date of birth (information provided by relatives), where certain other 19th Century sources list it as 17 September 1795.
Father: James Percival (b. 1767, d. 1807)
Mother: Elizabeth Hart
Sister: Harriet
Brother: Edwin
Brother: Oswin Hart
University: Yale University (1815)
Medical School: Yale School of Medicine
Professor: Chemistry, US Military Academy, West Point
Author of books:
Poems (1821, poetry)
Clio (1822, poetry)
Prometheus, Part II: With Other Poems (1822, poetry)
Poems (1823, poetry)
The Dream of a Day, and Other Poems (1843, poetry)
The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival (1863, poetry)
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