Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1821, June 17 | Born, Bethlehem, N.Y. |
| 1842-1845 | Journalist and editor, Poets' Magazine, New York State Mechanic, and Hartford Evening Journal |
| 1845 | Publisher, Scioto Gazette (Chillicothe, Ohio) |
| 1847-1848 | Clerk, Ohio House of Representatives |
| 1848 | Published with Edwin Hamilton Davis Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (New York: Bartlett and Welford; Cincinnati: J.M. and U.P. James; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 306 pp.) |
| 1849-1850 | Chargé d'affaires, Guatemala |
| 1851 | Published Aboriginal Monuments of the State of New York (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 188 pp.) |
| 1852 | Published Nicaragua; Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Inter-oceanic Canal (New York: D. Appleton & Co. 2 vols.) |
| 1853 | Secretary, Honduras Interoceanic Railway Co. |
| 1858 | Published The States of Central America (New York: Harper & Brothers. 782 pp.) Married Miriam Florence Folline (later divorced) |
| 1860 | Editor, publishing firm of Frank Leslie |
| 1861 | Supervised Frank Leslie's Pictorial History of the American Civil War (New York: F. Leslie, 1861-1862, 2 vols.) |
| 1863-1865 | United States Commissioner to Peru |
| 1867 | Delegate of the American Ethnological Society to the Anthropological Congress of Paris for 1867 |
| 1868 | Consul-General of Honduras, New York, N.Y. |
| 1870 | Published Honduras; Descriptive, Historical, and Statistical (London: Trubner & Co. 278 pp.) |
| 1871 | President, Anthropological Society of New York |
| 1874-1888 | Suffered intermittent periods of mental illness |
| circa 1874 | Remarried Miriam Florence Folline Squier Leslie |
| 1877 | Published Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (London: Macmillan and Co. 599 pp.) |
| 1888, Apr. 17 | Died, Brooklyn, N.Y. |