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"George Cary Eggleston (Nov. 26, 1839-Apr. 14, 1911), journalist, novelist, was born at Vevay, Ind., the son of Joseph Cary Eggleston
and Mary Jane Craig. After an early youth of play and reading
guided by his mother … he went to school at Madison (Ind.) and was for something over a year at Indiana Asbury (now De
Pauw) University. Straitened circumstances, however, forced him when
only sixteen to teach school at Riker's Ridge and to meet those amusing and
trying experiences that inspired The Hoosier Schoolmaster, of his brother Edward. When seventeen, having
inherited his family's plantation in Amelia County, Va., he was whisked into an aristocratic, genial, and
leisurely life that astonished and charmed him. He then studied law at
Richmond College and made friends with the Richmond literary
group, especially with John Eston Cooke. In 1861, with many other gentlemen horsemen he saw service in northern
Virginia in the Ist Virginia Cavalry, first under Col. J.E.B.
Stuart and later under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. In the
autumn he transferred to the field artillery on the South Carolina coast, but in 1863, he was back north in
Longstreet's artillery… In 1864 his
battery served as sharpshooters through the bloody siege of Petersburg; and Eggleston, with his brother
Joseph as second in command, was in charge of a mortar fort.
"Immediately after the war he went to Cairo, Ill., to take a position with a banking and steamboating firm;
and there on Sept. 9, 1868, he married
Marion Craggs. Later he practised law in Mississippi. The work in both places, however, was uncongenial; accordingly, in
1870, with his wife and one child, he went to New York. Here he began a newspaper and editorial career that lasted, except for
short intervals, for twenty years. After a year first as a reporter and later as an
editorial writer on the BROOKLYN DAILY UNION under the guidance
of Theodore Tihon, and after a brief period of free-lance
writing, he joined his brother Edward in securing good writers
for the HEARTH AND HOME, bringing among others Frank R.
Stockton to the staff. He was editor-in-chief in 1874 when the magazine was sold. A free-lance again, he wrote for the
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, GALAXY, APPLETON's JOURNAL, and other periodicals. In
1875 he became a member of the editorial staff of the
NEW YORK EVENING POST, and a chat with William Cullen Bryant
soon thereafter brought him the POST'S literary editorship … In
1889, after eight years in which he had been literary
adviser to Harper & Brothers, and literary editor and
later editor-in-chief of the COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, he was called to the editorial
staff of the NEW YORK WORLD and there for eleven years he wrote under
Joseph Pulitzer's inspiring guidance, being his
mouthpiece in many of the WORLD'S political campaigns.
"In the quieter periods of his New York life, Eggleston had written excellent non-morallzing boys'
stories with his own boys as critics., and he had done much magazine writing and
miscellaneous book-making. Now, refusing to yield further to the 'call of
the wild,' as he termed the lure of journalism and retiring to his Lake
George home every summer, he zestfully wrote a score or more of works:
boys' stories, history, biography, autobiography, and especially novels.
Some of the latter he based upon experience in Indiana, on the Mississippi, and in South Carolina. His most glamorous memories, however, were of pre-war Virginia
… The characters in these books are too perfect to seem real, but
Eggleston always denied having idealized them …"
Mr. Eggleston died on Apr. 14,
1911.
Condensed from A. L. H., Dictionary of American Biography,
Vol. VI.
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