Joseph Holt Ingraham (January 26, 1809 – December 18, 1860) was an American author. Ingraham was born in

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. He spent several years at sea, then worked as a teacher of languages in Mississippi. In the 1840s he published work in ''

Arthur's Magazine ''Arthur's Magazine'' (1844–1846) was an American literary periodical published in Philadelphia in the 19th century. Edited by Timothy Shay Arthur, it featured work by Edgar A. Poe, J.H. Ingraham, Sarah Josepha Hale, Thomas G. Spear, and ot ...

''. He became an Episcopal clergyman on March 7, 1852. In

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, Ingraham married Mary Brooks, a cousin of

Phillips Brooks Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, " O Little Town o ...

. Under the pen-name F. Clinton Barrington he wrote stories for popular publications such as ''

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''. He met

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in 1846 and told him that he "has written eighty novels, and of these twenty during the last year." Ingraham died at the age of 51, in

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, from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in the vestibule of his church. Ingraham wrote a series of three epistolary novels on biblical themes; ''The Pillar of Fire'', ''The Throne of David'' and ''The Prince of the House of David''. The first of these was supposed to illustrate the beginning of Hebraic power, the second its culmination and the last its decadence.

Works

* ''Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf'' (1836) * ''Burton; or, The Sieges'' (1838) * ''Captain Kyd or the wizard of the sea'' (1839) * ''The Kelpie Rock'' (1839) * ''The Quadroone; or, St. Michael's Day'' (1840) * ''Mate Burke, or, The foundlings of the sea'' (1846) * ''The Prince of the House of David'' (1855) * ''The Sunny South'', a collection of letters, published under the pen name Kate Conyngham. * ''The Pillar of Fire'' (1859), used as one of the bases of the film ''

The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments ( Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ ...

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