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(1838-1888) Fiction writer. Edward Payson Roe was born in Moodna, New York and died in Cornwall. He was also a pastor in Highland Falls, New York, approximately a mile from West Point. There his addresses on topics of the Civil War gained for him some notice as a speaker. In 1874 he removed to Cornwall-on-Hudson, where he farmed and turned out a series of novels which sold well (759,000 copies, it was estimated, at his death) and met with wide-spread interest but lacked distinction or literary quality.

Full Name

Edward Payson Roe

Locations

Orange

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Roe studied at the Auburn Theological Seminary in Manhattan, New York.

1838

BIRTH

Edward Payson Roe was born in 1838 in Moodna, New York.

1866

RESIDENCE

Roe lived in Orange County, New York and was a pastor at the Presbyterian Church in Highland Falls, New York from 1866 to 1874.

1872

LITWORK

Barriers Burned Away


Novel about the Chicago fire of 1871.

1873

LITWORK

What Can She Do?


Novel.

1874

LITWORK

Opening A Chestnut Burr


Novel.

1877

LITWORK

A Knight Of The 19th Century


Novel.

1878

LITWORK

A Face Illumined


Novel.

1881

LITWORK

Success with Small Fruits


Novel.

1885

LITWORK

Driven Back To Eden


Novel.

1886

LITWORK

He Fell in Love with his Wife


Novel.

1887

LITWORK

The Earth Trembled


Novel.

1887

LITWORK

The Home Acre


Novel.

1888

DEATH

Edward Payson Roe died in 1888 in Cornwall, New York.

1888

INTERMENT

Edward Payson Roe is interred in the Willow Dale Cemetery, Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York.

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