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An American essayist and novelist; born in Fairfield, Ind., Sept. 9, 1844; died at Crawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 15, 1901. He was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War; afterwards State Geologist of Indiana, 1885-89. He wrote: "Hoosier Mosaics" (1875); "The Witchery of Archery" (1878); "A Tallahassee Girl" (1882); "His Second Campaign" (1883); "Songs of Fair Weather" (1883); "At Love's Extremes" (1885); "By ways and Bird Notes" (1885); "The Boy's Book of Sports" (1886); "A Banker of Bankersville" (1886); "Sylvan Secrets" (1887); "A Fortnight of Folly" (1888); "Poems" (1892); "King of Honey Island" (1892); "The Ocala Boy" (1895); "Alice of Old Vincennes" (1900).