Joseph Holt Ingraham
Joseph Holt Ingraham (January 26, 1809 – December 18, 1860) was an American author.
Ingraham was born in Portland, Maine. He spent several years at sea, then worked as a teacher of languages in Mississippi. In the 1840s he published work in Arthur's Magazine.[1] He became an Episcopal clergyman on March 7, 1852.
In Natchez, Ingraham married Mary Brooks, a cousin of Phillips Brooks.
Under the pen-name F. Clinton Barrington he wrote stories for popular publications like Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.[2]
Ingraham died at the age of 51, in Holly Springs, Mississippi from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound in the vestibule of his church.[3]
Ingraham wrote a series of three epistolary novels on biblical themes; The Pillar of Fire, The Throne of David and The Prince of the House of David. The first of these was supposed to illustrate the beginning of Hebraic power, the second its culmination and the last its decadence.
Works
- Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf (1836)
- Burton; or, The Sieges (1838)
- The Quadroone; or, St. Michael's Day (1840)
- The Prince of the House of David (1855)
- The Sunny South, a collection of letters, published under the pen name Kate Conyngham.
- The Pillar of Fire (1859), used as one of the bases of the film The Ten Commandments
References
- ↑ Prospectus for Arthur's Magazine, v.5. 1845. Cf. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 6443
- ↑ http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/barrington_clinton.html
- ↑ Archives and Special Collections – University of Mississippi
External links
- Works by Joseph Holt Ingraham at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Joseph Holt Ingraham at Internet Archive
- Works by or about F. Clinton Barrington at Internet Archive
- Biography
- J.H. Ingraham at the Internet Movie Database
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