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Nationality
  
American

Spouse
  
Anna Deane (m. 1862)

Role
  
Author


Name
  
Edward Ellis

Occupation
  
Author

Education
  
Master of Arts

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Born
  
April 11, 1840 (
1840-04-11
)
Geneva, Ohio

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

Died
  
June 20, 1916, Cliff Island, Portland, Maine, United States

Parents
  
Mary Ellis, Sylvester Ellis

People also search for
  
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Books
  
The Steam Man of the Prairies, The Life Of Colonel David Cr, The Life of Kit Carson, Adrift on the Pacific, Hunters of the Ozark

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Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine.

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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.

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Dime novels

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.

Pseudonyms

Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including:

  • "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)
  • "Lieut. R. H. Jayne" (at least 2 titles in the War Whoop series)
  • "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)
  • References

    Edward S. Ellis Wikipedia