American author and journalist, born in Wabash County, IN, on the 3rd of May 1854. He received no school education after his ninth year, but was apprenticed to a printer. In 1878 he became proprietor and editor of the Atchison Daily Globe, of Atchison, KS. He published The Story of a Country Town (1883); The Mystery of the Locks (1885); A Moonlight Boy (1886); and A Man Story (1887).
