James Matthews Legaré

James Matthews Legaré (November 26, 1823, Charleston, South Carolina – March 30, 1859, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American poet and failed inventor.

Legaré was a relative of Hugh S. Legaré. He was by profession an inventor, but whose ill health prevented the commercialization of his devices. He contributed poetry to magazines, and published a single volume, "Orta-Undis and other poems" in 1848. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lUzX8R6MnIQC&pg=PA216&dq=James+Matthews+Legar%C3%A9&ei=XfnESMOyN534tAOs07XXDA&sig=ACfU3U0WOCHx8H9S6JmVUhCbSe9g0aQ71A Southern Life in Southern Literature] by Maurice Garland Fulton] Orta-undis means "sprung from water".

References

*Curtis Carroll Davis, "That Ambitious Mr. Legaré: The Life of James M. Legaré of South Carolina, Including a Collected Edition of His Verse", (University of South Carolina Press, 1971), ISBN 0872491668.

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