American author; born at East Machias, ME, on the 16th of December 1850, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1876. He removed to Boston, becoming secretary of the Young Men’s Republican Committee and editor of a civil service reform organ, the Broadside. In 1880 he became editor of the Boston Courier. He published the following, among other works: Patty’s Perversities (1881); Mr. Jacobs, a parody on Marion Crawford’s Mr. Isaacs (1883); The Pagans (1884); A Wheel of Fire (1885); Berries of the Brier, poems (1886); Lad’s Love (1887); Oriental Tales; Sonnets in Shadow (1887); and The Philistines (1888). See also “In Paradise,” etc.
