Albert Mathews

Paul Siogvolk (real name Albert Mathews) (1820-1903) was an American author, lawyer and editor. He was also the step-father of Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt.

Mathews was born in New York City in 1820, he graduated from Yale in 1842, where he was co-editor and contributor to the Yale Literary Magazine, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1845.

He was a contributor to The Knickerbocker from 1852-8. He also wrote for the New York Mirror, Home Journal and Evening Post.

His Walter Ashwood: A Love Story was published in New York in 1859 (duodecimo).

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