J.H. Ingraham

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J.H. Ingraham


Born
January 26, 1809

Died
December 18, 1860


Joseph Holt Ingraham (January 26, 1809 – December 18, 1860) was an American author.

Ingraham was born in Portland, Maine. He spent several years at sea, then worked as a teacher of languages in Mississippi. In the 1840s he published work in Arthur's Magazine. 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. He met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1846 and told him that he "has written eighty novels, and of these twenty during the last year."

Ingraham died at the age of 51, in Holly Springs, Mississippi from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wo
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