(1833-1902) Journalist, writer. Born in Seneca Falls, N.Y. In 1861 he became war correspondent for the New York Tribune but was taken prisoner by the Confederate army. He was kept in various prisons for a year and a half, eventually escaped from Salisbury, N.C., and traveled 400 miles through hostile country to reach Union lines. … Continued
Poet, novelist, writer. Born in Fort Hamilton. Her works include “Goods and Chattels,” “Washington Irving,” “Come Slowly Eden” (about Emily Dickinson), “Basket for a Fair” and others.
(1838-1915) Author, professor. He was born in Ovid, NY. His name was associated with Yale University for many years. He wrote “A History of the English Language” (1879), “Life of James Fenimore Cooper” (1882), and edited a volume of writings by Charles Dudley Warner (1904).
(1829-1887) Writer, jurist. McMaster edited the Steuben Courier.
(1879-1966) Activist, author. Margaret Higgens Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was publisher of “The Birth Control Review.”
(1861-1929) Publisher. Edwin Stewart Underhill was the publisher of the “Corning Evening Leader” in Corning, New York.
(1854-1885) Writer. Edward Lytton Wheeler was born in Avoca, New York. He was the creator of the adventures of “Deadwood Dick” series.
(1903-1968) Novelist. Charles R. Jackson was born in Summit, New Jersey, and died in New York City. He grew up and attended high school in Newark, New York, and later attended Syracuse University.
(1816-1891) Author. His brother was James Russell Lowell.
(1791-1852) Playwright, poet, actor. John Payne was born in New York. He wrote over 65 plays. At 14, while working in a New York counting house, he spent his spare hours editing and published the Thespian Mirror, a journal of events and gossip in the theatrical world of the time. Mr. Payne’s first play “Julia;” … Continued