Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . the Indian ris-ings he was wounded several times and to theday of his death carried a scar on his facecaused by an Indian arrow. He had a tastefor literature, and devoted himself for manyyears afterward in writing stories of frontierlife for newspapers and magazines. He hada rich and extensive personal experience fromwhich to draw his material, and he had ac-quired a graphic and popular style of tellinghis tales. He was very successful in a materialway in his literary
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . the Indian ris-ings he was wounded several times and to theday of his death carried a scar on his facecaused by an Indian arrow. He had a tastefor literature, and devoted himself for manyyears afterward in writing stories of frontierlife for newspapers and magazines. He hada rich and extensive personal experience fromwhich to draw his material, and he had ac-quired a graphic and popular style of tellinghis tales. He was very successful in a materialway in his literary work. He continued arather remarkable career as an author until1899, when he engaged in business, buildingup a flourishing trade in dispensing a cure forthe drug habit. He took up his residence inMelrose in 1900, and was popular and highlyesteemed in that city, where he had a largecircle of personal friends. He belonged toMelrose Lodge, No. 157, Odd Fellows; toAdvance Lodge, No. 37, Goffstown, NewHampshire; Knights of Pythias and to U. Post, No. 4, Grand Army of the Repub-lic. He was and his family are members of.
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