American journalist, born at Bellefontaine, OH, on the 21st of November 1850, graduated at Cornell in 1870; became special correspondent in the West Indies, Europe, Canada and the United States for the New York Herald; equipped a canoe expedition to Lake Itasca in 1872; and in 1875 simulated insanity, and was incarcerated for several weeks in an insane asylum, for the purpose of ascertaining how such people are treated. He is a contributor to current literature, and has published A Mad World; On a Margin; and Lovers Four and Maidens Five.
