WASON, ROBERT ALEXANDER: 1874-
Robert Alexander Wason , son of Robert Alexander and Gertrude Louise Paddock Wason, was born in Toledo, O., on Apr. 6, 1874. Removing to Indiana as a boy, he attended high school in Delphi for one year. On May 11, 1911, he married Emma Louise Brownell of Peru , Ind.
For eight years he was a clerk in a general store–at the same time making several trips to the West. During the Spanish-American War he served nine months in the Fifth U. S. Artillery.
In addition to his books he has written vaudeville sketches, a comic opera, and short stories.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Babe Randolph's Turning Point. 1904.
- The Wolves: Fable with a Purpose.
Chicago, 1908.
- Nachette (withNed Nye). New York, 1909.
- Happy Hawkins. Boston, 1909.
- The Steering Wheel.
Indianapolis, 1910.
- The Knight-Errant: a Novel of To-Day.
Boston, 1911.
- Friar Tuck; Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John
Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A., as Set Forth and Embellished by His Friend
and Admirer Happy Hawkins and Here Recorded by Robert Alexander
Wason. Boston, 1912.
- And Then Came Jean. Boston,
1913.
- The Dog and the Child and the Ancient Sailor Man.
Boston, n.d. [1913].
- Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle.
Boston, 1914.
- Knute Ericson's Celebration, in the Grim
Thirteen. 1917.
- Spoilers of the Valley. 1921.
