John Daly Burk [SEP] date of death
John Daly Burk
John Daly Burk (ca.1776–1808) was an Irish-born dramatist, historian and newspaperman in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He died fighting a duel in Virginia in 1808.
Biography.
Burk was probably born in Cork, Ireland circa 1772 and was raised Protestant. Burk attended Trinity College, Dublin. In Boston, Massachusetts, he edited the "Polar Star" newspaper, ca.1796. In New York he published "The Time-Piece." In 1798 he
reading About Burk.
- Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, v.2. Boston: Little & Brown, 1850
- Charles Campbell. Some materials to serve for a brief memoir of John Daly Burk: author of a History of Virginia. With a sketch of the life and character of his only child, Judge John Junius Burk. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1868
- "Introduction." Burk. Bunker-Hill: or The death of General