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Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861 – January 24, 1920) was a journalist, historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is ''Indian Fights and Fighters''.
Portrait of Cyrus Townsend Brady with Autograph
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Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861 – January 24, 1920) was a journalist, historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is ''Indian Fights and Fighters''.
Background
He was born inAllegheny, Pennsylvania
Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. It was located north across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh, with its southwest border formed by ...
, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a United States Service academies, federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of ...
in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. His second wife was Mary Barrett.
Brady's first major book, ''For Love of Country'', whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour, was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Biddle (January 8, 1786February 27, 1844) was an American financier who served as the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United States (chartered 1816–1836). Throughout his life Biddle worked as an editor, diplomat, au ...
, one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the navy of the United States during the American Revolutionary War and was founded October 13, 1775. The fleet cumulatively became relatively substantial through the efforts of the Continental Navy's patron John Adams ...
.
Brady was also famous for his views of feminism and Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...
, he preached many anti-suffrage sermons and described women voters as "an insult to God".
In 1914 ,Brady began working as a screenwriter at Vitagraph Company of America
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...
.
Brady died in Yonkers, New York
Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...
of pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity ...
at age 58.
Works
*''The Island of Regeneration'' (1888) *''For Love of Country'' (1898) *''American Fights and Fighters'' (1900) *''Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West'' (1900) *''Hohenzollern: A Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa'' (1901) *''The Southerners'' (1903) *''A Little Traitor to the South'' (1904) *''A Midshipman in the Pacific'' (1904) *''Indian Fights and Fighters'' (1904) *''The Corner in Coffee'' (1904) *''Three Daughters of the Confederacy'' (1905) *''The Patriots'' (1906) *''Northwestern Fights and Fighters'' (1907) *''As the Sparks Fly Upward'' (1911) *''Bob Dashaway Privateersman'' (1911) *''Hearts and the Highway'' (1911) *''Secret Service'' (1912) *''The Island of the Stairs'' (1913) *''Britton of the Seventh: A Romance of Custer and the Great Northwest'' A.C. McClurg & Co. Chicago (1914) *''And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916'' *''By the World Forgot'' (1917) *''Little France'' Many more titles by Cyrus Townsend Brady are listed in: American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography by Geoffrey D. Smith, pp. 75–78.References
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