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John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) was an American author and journalist.

Biography

John Randolph Spears was born at Van Wert, Ohio on April 21, 1850.[1]

He married Celestia Smiley on November 11, 1873.[1]

In 1875, he became editor of the East Aurora Advertiser, and the next year he founded the Silver Creek Local. He was a reporter on the Buffalo Express from 1880 until 1882, when he joined the staff of the New York Sun.[2] Later, devoting himself to writing, he settled at Little Falls, N. Y.

He died in Utica, New York on January 25, 1936.[3]

Publications

  • The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Dramatic Story of a Mountain Feud (1888)
  • The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn (1895)
  • The Port of Missing Ships and Other Stories of the Sea (1896)
  • The History of Our Navy from its Origin to the Present Day (five volumes, 1897-1899)
  • The Fugitive (1899)
  • The American Slave Trade (1900; new edition, 1907)
  • David G. Farragut (1905)
  • A History of the United States Navy (1907)
  • The Story of New England Whalers (1908)
  • A History of the American Navy (1909)
  • The Story of the American Merchant Marine (1910)
  • Master Mariners (1911)

Online reading

References

  1. ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. IX. James T. White & Company. 1907. p. 162. Retrieved November 21, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain"Spears, John Randolph" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
  3. ^ "News Bulletins". The Evening News. Utica, New York. January 25, 1936. p. 15. Retrieved November 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.


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