Joseph Holt Ingraham
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Joseph Holt Ingraham (January 26, 1809 – December 18, 1860) was an American author.
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[edit] Biography
Ingraham was born in 1809 in Portland, Maine. He spent several years at sea, then worked as a teacher of languages in Mississippi. In the 1840's he published work in Arthur's Magazine.[1] He became an Episcopal clergyman on March 7, 1852.
In Natchez, Ingraham married Mary Brooks, a cousin of Phillips Brooks.
Under the pen-name F. Clinton Barrington he wrote stories for popular publications like Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.[2]
Ingraham died in 1860, at the age of 51, in Holly Springs, Mississippi from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound in the vestibule of his church.[3]
[edit] Works
- Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf (1836)
- Burton; or, The Sieges (1838)
- The Quadroone; or, St. Michael's Day (1840)
- The Prince of the House of David (1855)
- The Sunny South, a collection of letters, published under the pen name Kate Conyngham.
- The Pillar of Fire (1859), used as one of the bases of the film The Ten Commandments
[edit] References
- ^ Prospectus for Arthur's Magazine, v.5. 1845. Cf. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 6443
- ^ http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/barrington_clinton.html
- ^ Archives and Special Collections - University of Mississippi
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