Edgar watson howe biography of william

  • Edgar Watson Howe (May 3, 1853 – October 3, 1937), was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • Ed Howe was born in 1853 or 1854 in Wabash County and moved with his family to Missouri when he was three.
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    Ed Howe - Wabash County author
    from Newsletter of the North Manchester, Indiana, Historical Society, Inc.
    Volume XXII, Number 3, August 2005 —

    At the May meeting of the N Manchester Historical Society we heard the story of a writer born in Wabash County who became well-known in his time, but is largely unknown today. This story was told by Edward K Jones, Jr. , Wabash County and local historian, who writes a column for the Wabash Plain Dealer and is known as Pete Jones.

    Ed Howe was born in 1853 or 1854 in Wabash County and moved with his family to Missouri when he was three. His father was an itinerant Methodist preacher who also farmed. Ed did not get along with his father and left home when he was 15. He became a tramp printer, traveling much of the West as he moved from job to job. By age 20 he bought a newspaper in a Colorado town but it was so unsuccessful that when two of his children died of diphtheria, the competing newspaper owner paid for their burial. Ed Howe moved to Atchison, Kansas, and bought another newspaper—The Atchison Globe. This time he learned the business, became part of the community

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    • Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937: The Anthology of Another Town (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920) (HTML and page images at Indiana)
    • Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937, contrib.: The Borzoi 1920: Being a Sort of Record of Five Years' Publishing (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, also contrib. by Maksim Gorky, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Witter Bynner, Willa Cather, Clarence Day, Floyd Dell, Wilson Follett, A. P. Herbert, Joseph Hergesheimer, H. L. Mencken, Philip Moeller, George Jean Nathan, Sidney L. Nyburg, Eunice Tietjens, H. M. Tomlinson, Carl Van Vechten, Arthur Waley, Conrad Aiken, Pío Baroja, Mary Borden, Robert Bridges, Louis Couperus, W. H. Davies, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Graves, W. H. Hudson, Ezra Pound, John Collings Squire, and Elliot L. Grant Watson
    • Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937: Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from The Atchison Globe (Topeka, KS: Crane and Co., 1911) (HTML and page images at Indiana)
    • Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937: A Moonlight Boy (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1886) (page images at Hat
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