John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) was an
American
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author and journalist.
Biography
John Randolph Spears was born at
Van Wert, Ohio
Van Wert is a city in and the county seat of Van Wert County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwestern Ohio approximately 77 mi (123 km) SW of Toledo and 34 mi (54 km) SE of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The po ...
on April 21, 1850.
He married Celestia Smiley on November 11, 1873.
[
In 1875, he became editor of the ]East Aurora
East Aurora is a village in Erie County, New York, United States, southeast of Buffalo. It lies in the eastern half of the town of Aurora. The village population was 5,998 per the 2020 census. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Met ...
''Advertiser'', and the next year he founded the Silver Creek ''Local''. He was a reporter on the Buffalo Express from 1880 until 1882, when he joined the staff of the ''New York Sun
''The New York Sun'' is an American online newspaper published in Manhattan; from 2002 to 2008 it was a daily newspaper distributed in New York City. It debuted on April 16, 2002, adopting the name, motto, and masthead of the earlier New York ...
''.Utica, New York
Utica () is a city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The tenth-most-populous city in New York State, its population was 65,283 in the 2020 U.S. Census. Located on the Mohawk River at the ...
on January 25, 1936.
Publications
* ''The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Dramatic Story of a Mountain Feud'' (1888)
* ''The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn'' (1895)
* ''The Port of Missing Ships and Other Stories of the Sea'' (1896)
* ''The History of Our Navy from its Origin to the Present Day'' (five volumes, 1897-1899)
* ''The Fugitive'' (1899)
* ''The American Slave Trade'' (1900; new edition, 1907)
* ''David G. Farragut'' (1905)
* ''A History of the United States Navy'' (1907)
* ''The Story of New England Whalers'' (1908)
* ''A History of the American Navy'' (1909)
* ''The Story of the American Merchant Marine'' (1910)
* ''Master Mariners'' (1911)
Online reading
* (Also 1927, 1960, 1971, 2008 editions)
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References
External links
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Historical Materials from Southern PatagoniaWorks by John Randolph Spears
Google Books
History of Buffalo, New York
People from Van Wert, Ohio
1850 births
1936 deaths
Historians from Ohio
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