The New International Encyclopædia/Ainslie, Hew

AINSLIE, ānz′lī, Hew (1792-1878). A Scottish-American poet, born at Bargeny Mains, Ayrshire. While a clerk in the register house at Edinburgh he acted as amanuensis to Professor Dugald Stewart. He emigrated to the United States in 1822, and joined for a year Robert Owen's venture at New Harmony, Ind. (See Harmonists.) He subsequently went into business. His numerous dialect poems had extended his reputation to Scotland, where he was enthusiastically received by literary folk in 1864. These poems, many of which were highly esteemed by Sir Walter Scott, were collected and edited by a friend, W. Wilson (1855). Some of them are also to be found in Wilson's Poets and Poetry of Scotland (1876).