Horatio Hastings Weld

{{short description|American journalist}}

Horatio Hastings Weld (4 February 1811 – 27 August 1888) (commonly referred to as H. Hastings Weld) was an American author, newspaper editor and minister.Wilson, James Grant & Fiske, John (eds.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=takoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA424 Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography, Volume 6], p.424 (1889) In 1845 he became an Episcopal minister.Husch, Gail E. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kpkTHFJ739IC&pg=PA233 Something coming: apocalyptic expectation and mid-nineteenth-century American painting], p.233 (2000) ({{ISBN|978-1584650065}})

Weld was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1811. In 1845, Weld was ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church. He would serve as rector of St. James Episcopal Church of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Trinity Church of Moorestown, New Jersey and Christ Church of Riverton, New Jersey.{{cite web|title=H. Hastings Weld|url=https://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/weld_hastings/|website=Blue Letter Bible|accessdate=28 February 2016}}

Weld's books include The Women of the Scriptures (1848); Life of Christ (1850); and Sacred and Poetical Quotations (1851).

Weld served as editor for several New York City periodicals, including Brother Jonathan, and the short-lived Evening Tattler.Kopley, Richard. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WtPRrqOsbGEC&pg=PA108 Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin mysteries], p.107 (2008) ({{ISBN|978-0230604704}}) He also served as editor of the Boston-based newspaper the New England Galaxy, recruiting John Neal to co-edit the paper in 1835.{{cite thesis | last = Richards | first = Irving T. | date = 1933 | title = The Life and Works of John Neal | type = PhD | publisher = Harvard University | url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038995990203941/catalog | oclc = 7588473 | pages = 791–792}}

Weld died in Riverton in 1888.