Joseph Holt Ingraham
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Joseph Holt Ingraham was an American
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Biography

Ingraham was born in 1809 in Portland
Portland, Maine
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, Maine
Maine
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. He spent several years at sea, then worked as a teacher of languages in Mississippi. In the 1840's he published work in Arthur's Magazine
Arthur's Magazine
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. He became an Episcopal clergyman on March 7, 1852.

In Natchez
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, Ingraham married Mary Brooks, a cousin of Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
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Under the pen-name F. Clinton Barrington he wrote stories for popular publications like Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. It became Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the...

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Ingraham died in 1860, at the age of 51, in Holly Springs
Holly Springs, Mississippi
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, Mississippi
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 from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound in the vestibule of his church.

Works

  • Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf (1836)
  • Burton; or, The Sieges (1838)
  • The Quadroone; or, St. Michael's Day (1840)
  • The Prince of the House of David (1855)
  • The Sunny South, a collection of letters, published under the pen name
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     Kate Conyngham.
  • The Pillar of Fire (1859), used as one of the bases of the film The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
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