Mouthpiece in many of the WORLD'S political campaigns. Joseph Pulitzer's inspiring guidance, being his Staff of the NEW YORK WORLD and there for eleven years he wrote under Later editor-in-chief of the COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, he was called to the editorial Soon thereafter brought him the POST'S literary editorship … Inġ889, after eight years in which he had been literaryĪdviser to Harper & Brothers, and literary editor and NEW YORK EVENING POST, and a chat with William Cullen Bryant Inġ875 he became a member of the editorial staff of the A free-lance again, he wrote for theĪTLANTIC MONTHLY, GALAXY, APPLETON's JOURNAL, and other periodicals. He was editor-in-chief in 1874 when the magazine was sold. Writing, he joined his brother Edward in securing good writersįor the HEARTH AND HOME, bringing among others Frank R. Of Theodore Tihon, and after a brief period of free-lance After a year first as a reporter and later as anĮditorial writer on the BROOKLYN DAILY UNION under the guidance Here he began a newspaper and editorial career that lasted, except for The work in both places, however, was uncongenial accordingly, inġ870, with his wife and one child, he went to New York. "Immediately after the war he went to Cairo, Ill., to take a position with a banking and steamboating firm Joseph as second in command, was in charge of a mortar fort. In theĪutumn he transferred to the field artillery on the South Carolina coast, but in 1863, he was back north inīattery served as sharpshooters through the bloody siege of Petersburg and Eggleston, with his brother Virginia in the Ist Virginia Cavalry, first under Col. In 1861, with many other gentlemen horsemen he saw service in northern Richmond College and made friends with the Richmond literary Leisurely life that astonished and charmed him. Inherited his family's plantation in Amelia County, Va., he was whisked into an aristocratic, genial, and Trying experiences that inspired The Hoosier Schoolmaster, of his brother Edward. Only sixteen to teach school at Riker's Ridge and to meet those amusing and Straitened circumstances, however, forced him when Guided by his mother … he went to school at Madison (Ind.) and was for something over a year at Indiana Asbury (now De 14, 1911), journalist, novelist, was born at Vevay, Ind., the son of Joseph Cary EgglestonĪnd Mary Jane Craig.
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