Orville L. Holley

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Orville Luther Holley (May 19, 1791 Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut – March 25, 1861 Albany, Albany County, New York) was an American writer, newspaper editor, historian and politician.

Life

He was the son of Luther Holley (1752-1824) and Sarah Dakin Holley (b. 1755). He graduated as Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1813.

From May 1817 to April 1819, he edited the American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review in New York with Horatio Bigelow.

From July 1823 to 1826, and from 1827 to 1831, he edited the Troy Sentinel where he published in December 1823 anonymously a poem now better known as The Night Before Christmas but to which he gave the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas.

In 1836 he edited the Western Repository and

As a

Canal Commissioner Myron Holley and President of Transylvania University Horace Holley were his brothers.

Works

• The New York State Register for 1843 edited by O. L. Holley (J. Disturnell, Albany NY, 1843)
• The New-York State Register for 1845 edited by Orville Luther Holley, George Roberts Perkins, C. Van Benthuysen (J. Disturnell, New York, 1845)
• The New York State Register for 1847 edited by Orville Luther Holley (J. Disturnell, New York NY, 1847)
• A Description of the City of New York (New York, 1847)
• The Life of
  ISBN 978-0-548-49249-9
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