James Aldrich (1810–1856) was an editor and minor poet.
Aldrich was born in Mattituck, New York, apparently July 14, 1810, the sixth of the ten children of James Aldrich and Helen Hudson. He was a merchant from a young age.James Aldrich. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Edited by Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914; Fiske, John, 1842-1901. Page 42. Accessed 9 December 2025. Following his marriage to Matilda Hall Lyon in 1836, having had some success as a writer, at the age of 26 he was able to abandon business for literature. He founded the short-lived New York Literary Gazette in 1839, and later in 1842–44 worked as an editor on the New World (New York).James Aldrich from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. In the latter part of his life he resumed his business pursuits.James Aldrich. 1850 U.S. Census. Accessed via ancestry.com subscription site on 9 December 2025.
Much of his poetry was published in his Literary Gazette, and not brought together in a collection until after his death, when his daughter circulated it privately.Poems by James Aldrich from the PoetryArchive His poem A Death-Bed is often republished.
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