Cogswell

Cogswell, JOSEPH GREEN, LL.D., American bibliographer, born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1786, studied at Harvard and Göttingen, and was professor of Geology at Harvard from 1820 to 1823, when he established the Round Hill School with Bancroft (q.v.). He was for some years editor of the New York Review, and, with Halleck and Washington Irving, assisted in planning the Astor Library, of which he was for many years superintendent. He died in 1871.