Percival, James Gates, American poet and geologist, born at Kensington, Connecticut; took his degree at Yale in 1815, and qualified as a medical practitioner; he was for a few months professor of Chemistry at West Point, but retired and gave himself to literature and geology; his scientific works are valuable; “Prometheus and Clio” appeared in 1822, “Dream of a Day” in 1843; he died at Hazel Green, Wisconsin (1795‒1856).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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