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William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an American Romantic poet, journalist, political adviser, and homeopath, was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell; the William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home and, later, his longtime family summer retreat, is now a museum. His maternal ancestry traces back to John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, passengers on the Mayflower; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later. After just one year at Williams College, he reluctantly studied law at Worthington and Bridgewater, Massachusetts; he was admitted to the bar in 1815.