EMBREE, CHARLES FLEMING: 1874-1905.
Charles Fleming Embree , son of David F. and Mary Fleming Embree, was born in Princeton, Ind., on Oct. 1, 1874. His parents were members of pioneer southern Indiana families.
Young Embree was educated in the Princeton public schools and entered Wabash College in the fall of 1892. After three years he left college to devote his time to writing. In writing he achieved immediate success, his first novel being published in 1897. On Jan. 18, 1898, he married Virginia Broadwell.
He was awarded an honorary A.M. degree by Wabash College in 1903 in recognition of the distinguished place among American novelists which he had already achieved.
page: 104[View Page 104]Charles Fleming Embree died in 1905, in his thirty-first year.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Wabash College Archives.
- For the Love of Tonita, and Other Tales of the Mesas.
Chicago, 1897.
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A Dream of a Throne: the Story of a Mexican
Revolt
. Boston, 1900.
- A Heart of Flame: the Story of a Master Passion.
Indianapolis, 1901.
