Edward S. Ellis
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Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author.[1][2]
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Edward Sylvester Ellis | |
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Born | (1840-04-11)April 11, 1840 |
Died | June 20, 1916(1916-06-20) (aged 76) |
Nationality | American |
Other names | James Fenimore Cooper Adams Captain Bruin Adams Boynton M. Belknap J. G. Bethune Captain Latham C. Carleton Frank Faulkner Capt. R. M. Hawthorne Lieut. Ned Hunter Charles E. Lasalle H. R. Millbank Billex Muller Lieut. J. H. Randolph Emerson Rodman E. A. St. Mox Seelin Robins |
Education | Master of Arts (Princeton 1877) |
Occupation | Author |
Spouses | Anna M. Deane (m. 1862–1887)Clara Spalding Brown
(m. 1900) |
Parent(s) | Sylvester Ellis Mary Ellis |
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Information sourced from NIU Beadle and Adams Novel Digitization Project[1] |
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Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles[3] that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies[4] and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier.[5] Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.