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An American prose-writer; born in Stonington, Conn., Jan. 29, 1834. He began his literary career in New York in 1869, with contributions to periodicals. In 1873 he edited "Fox's Mission to Russia", and became a reviser, and in 1875 assistant editor, of the "American Cyclopaedia". He has written: "Young Folks' Catechisms of Common Things" (1880); "Young Folks' Cyclopaedia of Persons and Places" (1880); "Young Folks' Astronomy"; and "Chronicle of the Coach" (1886). In 1894 he was editor of Scribner's Art Cyclopaedias, of which two volumes of the part were published (1886) as "Cyclopaedia of Painters and Paintings".