“ HALE, EDWARD EVERETT (1822–1909) , American author, was born in Boston on the 3rd of April 1822, son of Nathan Hale (1784–1863) , proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and statesman, and grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the martyr spy. He graduated from Harvard in 1839 ”