John Howard Payne

John Howard Payne (1791–1852) was a New York-born actor and dramatist, best known as the author of the song Home, Sweet Home, and later United States consul at Tunis.

Griswold included 1 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.