Edward S. Ellis
| Edward Sylvester Ellis | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 11, 1840 Geneva, Ohio |
| Died | June 20, 1916 (aged 76) Cliff Island, Maine |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names |
James Fenimore Cooper Adams |
| Education | Master of Arts (Princeton 1877) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse(s) |
Anna M. Deane (m. 1862–87) Clara Spalding Brown (m. 1900) |
| Parent(s) | Sylvester Ellis Mary Ellis |
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
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine.
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of noms de plume. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.
Seth Jones was the most significant of early dime novels of publishers Beadle and Adams. It is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite stories. During the mid-1880s, after a fiction-writing career of some thirty years, Ellis eventually began composing more serious works of biography, history, and persuasive writing. Of note was "The Life of Colonel David Crockett", which had the story of Davy Crockett giving a speech usually called "Not Yours To Give". It was a speech in opposition to awarding money to a Navy widow on the grounds that Congress had no Constitutional mandate to give charity. It was said to have been inspired by Crockett's meeting with a Horatio Bunce, a much quoted man in Libertarian circles, but one for whom historical evidence is non-existent.
Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including:
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