American author, born in Nashville, TN, on the 22nd of December 1852; was educated at Neophogen College, Gallatin, TN. Took up newspaper work upon graduation, and followed his profession in Little Rock, Louisville, Nashville and Cleveland. Finally started The Arkansaw Traveler, a weekly paper of humor and literature, at Little Rock, AK, which had quite a success until it was removed to Chicago and he resigned from its editorship, when it was discontinued. Among his stories of Southern life are Len Gansett (1888); A Kentucky Colonel (1890), which was dramatized, and made a decided hit on the stage, and which has been republished in England, where it has been received favorably; Emmett Bonlore (1891); A Tennessee Judge (1893); The Wives of the Prophet (1894); and The Jucklins (1896).
