Haliburton
THOMAS CHAND- LER, a Canadian-American jurist and author; born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in December, 1796. He was called to the bar in 1820 and became a member of the House of Assembly. He was raised to the bench as chief-justice of the Common Pleas in 1829, and in 1842 became judge of the Supreme Court. In 1856 he retired from the bench, and took up his residence in England. In 1858 he received the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Oxford, and in 1859 entered Parliament as Conservative member for Launceston. He is best known as the author of "Sam Slick," the name of a Yankee clockmaker and peddler, whose quaint drollery has given him a fair chance of immortality. The series of newspaper sketches in which this character had first been introduced was published in 1837 as "The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville"; two later series followed in 1838 and 1840, and "The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England"; in 1843. Haliburton's other works include "A Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"; "The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony"; "Yankee Stories, and Traits of American Humor"; "Nature and Human Nature"; and "Wise Saws and Modern Instances." He died in Isleworth , near London, England, Aug. 27, 1865.