Surname: Brainard Forename(s): John Gardiner Calkins b. 1796. d. 26 September 1828. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet, lawyer, and editor. Born c. 1802 in New London, Connecticut. Read law at Yale
College and graduated in 1815. In 1822 became editor of the Connecticut Mirror. Biographical information: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices, vol. 3, S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829, pp. 198-202. (AC)