POORE, Benjamin Perley, American jour nalist: b. Newburyport, Mass., 2 Nov. 1820; d. Washington, D. C., 30 May 1887. Placed by his father in a military school to prepare for West Point he ran away and apprenticed himself to a printer. In 1838 his father purchased for him The Southern Whig, which he edited until 1841 when he became an attaché at the United States legation in Belgium. In 1811 18 he was engaged in France in making a collection of historical manuscripts for the State of Massa chusetts, and he also traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt and Palestine as correspondent for the Boston Atlas in 1843-48. On his re turn to the United States in 1848 he edited the Boston Bee and Sentinel until 1854, when he became Washington correspondent for the Boston Journal and several other newspapers, a position he occupied for 30 years, with the exception of a brief period as major in the Union army. In 1884 he became clerk of the
Senate Committee on Printing Records and edited several publications concerning govern ment affairs. Among his works are 'Cam paign Life of Gen. Zachary Taylor) (1848) ; 'The Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe) (1848 'Early Life of Napoleon Bonaparte) (1851); 'The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of Pres ident (1865) ; 'Federal and State Charters) (2 vols., 1877) ; 'The Political Reg istry and Congressional (1878) ; 'Life of Burnside) (1882) ; 'A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, 1774-1881) (1885) ; 'Remi niscences of Sixty Years in the National Me tropolis) (1886), a compilation of treaties be tween the United States and foreign govern ments, etc.