Edward Sylvester Ellis |
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| Born | (1840-04-11)April 11, 1840
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| Died | June 20, 1916(1916-06-20) (aged 76)
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| Nationality | American |
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| Other names | James Fenimore Cooper Adams
Captain Bruin Adams
Boynton M. Belknap
J. G. Bethune
Captain Latham C. Carleton
Frank Faulkner
Capt. R. M. Hawthorne
Lieut. Ned Hunter
Charles E. Lasalle
H. R. Millbank
Billex Muller
Lieut. J. H. Randolph
Emerson Rodman
E. A. St. Mox
Seelin Robins |
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| Education | Master of Arts (Princeton 1877) |
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| Occupation | Author |
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| Spouses |
Anna M. Deane (m. 1862 –1887 )Clara Spalding Brown
(m. 1900 ) |
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| Parent(s) | Sylvester Ellis
Mary Ellis |
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Information sourced from NIU Beadle and Adams Novel Digitization Project |
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author.
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.
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