Thomas Bulfinch 1796—1867

Thomas Bulfinch was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, belonging to a well-educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants’ Bank of Boston. Although he reorganized Psalms to illustrate the history of the Hebrews, he is best known as the author of Bulfinch’s Mythology, a compilation of three of his previous mythology works.