Josiah Meigs (August 21, 1757 in Middletown, Connecticut – September 4, 1822 in Washington, D.C.) was an American academic, journalist and government official.
Meigs was the 13th and last child of Return Meigs and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs. His older brother was Return J. Meigs, Sr. and a nephew was Return J. Meigs, Jr., who served as a United States Senator and Governor of Ohio.
After graduating from Yale University in 1778 with a Bachelor of Arts ...
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Josiah Meigs (August 21, 1757 in Middletown, Connecticut – September 4, 1822 in Washington, D.C.) was an American academic, journalist and government official.
Meigs was the 13th and last child of Return Meigs and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs. His older brother was Return J. Meigs, Sr. and a nephew was Return J. Meigs, Jr., who served as a United States Senator and Governor of Ohio.
After graduating from Yale University in 1778 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree, Meigs studied law and was (from 1781 to 1784) a Yale tutor in mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy. He was admitted to the bar in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1783, and served as New Haven city clerk from 1784 to 1789. During this period he established and published The New Haven Gazette (later known as The New Haven Gazette and the Connecticut Magazine) and in 1788 published the first American Medical Journal.
In 1789 Meigs left New Haven for St. George, Bermuda, where he practiced law and was involved in defending the...
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