American traveler and writer, born in Rochester, NY, on the 7th of August 1843. He was taken by his parents to California in 1855, and from there went to the Hawaiian Islands in 1864. He took up journalism, and in the interest of the San Francisco Chronicle traveled in Asia, Africa, Europe and the South Sea Islands. In 1885–86 he occupied the chair of English literature at Notre Dame University, IN, and later lectured on the same subject at the Catholic University of America at Washington, DC. Among his publications are Poems (1867); South-Sea Idyls (1873); Mashallah: A Flight into Egypt (1881); and The Lepers of Molokai (1885). See also South-Sea Idylls.
