Edward S. Ellis
| Edward Sylvester Ellis |
| Born |
April 11, 1840(1840-04-11)
Geneva, Ohio |
| Died |
June 20, 1916(1916-06-20) (aged 76)
Cliff Island, Maine |
| 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
footnotes=Information sourced from NIU Beadle and Adams Novel Digitization Project[1] |
| Education |
Master of Arts (Princeton 1877) |
| Occupation |
Author |
| Spouse |
Anna M. Deane (m. 1862–1887) «start: (1862)–end+1: (1888)»"Marriage: Anna M. Deane to Edward S. Ellis" Location: (linkback:http://localhost../../../../articles/e/d/w/Edward_S._Ellis_cc36.html)
Clara Spalding Brown (m. 1900) «start: (1900)»"Marriage: Clara Spalding Brown to Edward S. Ellis" Location: (linkback:http://localhost../../../../articles/e/d/w/Edward_S._Ellis_cc36.html) |
| Parents |
Sylvester Ellis
Mary Ellis |
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine.[2][1]
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of publications that he produced by his name and by a number of noms de plume. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Huge Hunter, or 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 Deerhunter novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.
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 mythical 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 of is non-existent.
Pseudonyms
Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including:[1]
- "James Fenimore Cooper Adams" or "Captain Bruin Adams" (68 titles)
- "Boynton M. Belknap" (9 titles)
- "J. G. Bethune" (1 title)
- "Captain Latham C. Carleton" (2 titles)
- "Frank Faulkner" (1 title)
- "Capt. R. M. Hawthorne" (4 titles)
- "Lieut. Ned Hunter" (5 titles)
- "Lt. R.H. Jayne"
- "Charles E. Lasalle" (16 titles)
- "H. R. Millbank" (3 titles)
- "Billex Muller" (3 titles)
- "Lieut. J. H. Randolph" (8 titles)
- "Emerson Rodman" (10 titles)
- "E. A. St. Mox" (2 titles)
- "Seelin Robins" (19 titles)
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Ellis, Edward S. |
| Alternative names |
Ellis, Edward Sylvester (full name); Adams, Bruin (Captain) (pseudonym); Adams, James Fenimore Cooper (pseudonym); Belknap, Boynton M. (pseudonym); Bethune, J. G. (pseudonym); Carleton, Latham C. (Captain) (pseudonym); Faulkner, Frank (pseudonym); Hawthorne, R. M. (Capt.) (pseudonym); Hunter, Ned (Lieut.) (pseudonym); Lasalle, Charles E. (pseudonym); Millbank, H. R. (pseudonym); Muller, Billex (pseudonym); Randolph, J. H. (Lieut.) (pseudonym); Rodman, Emerson (pseudonym); St. Mox, E. A. (pseudonym); Robins, Seelin (pseudonym) |
| Short description |
Novelist, nonfiction writer |
| Date of birth |
April 11, 1840 |
| Place of birth |
Geneva, Ohio, United States |
| Date of death |
June 20, 1916 |
| Place of death |
Cliff Island, Maine, United States |