Author talk:Edward Cornelius Towne

Sources

Name: Edward Cornelius Towne
Birth Year: 1834
Death Year: 1911
Source:

• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (Alli)
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
• A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
• A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA)

No entries in Crockford's for 1874 or 1885.

Census

• 1881 England

Name: Edward C. Towne
Age: 40
Relationship to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Where born: United States
Civil Parish: Bradfield
Street address: Underbank Parsonage
Education:
Employment status:
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Occupation: Minister (Est Ch)
Registration district: Wortley
ED, institution, or vessel: 11
Neighbors:
Piece: 4619
Folio: 141
Page Number: 1
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward C. Towne 40

publications

• Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity

Name: Reverend Edward Cornelius Towne
Publication Year: 1879
Publication Place: Massachusetts
School Name: Psi Upsilon
Residence Place: Manchester, England

Salutatorian, 1856; Assistant Editor of the Chicago Tribue, 1866; Editor of the Chicago EWxaminer Quarterly

• Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, 1888

contains some bibliographical detail of places with dates sufficient to align with 1881 census, and the commentary in the article written.

Obituary

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle; Publication Date: 24/ Jun/ 1911; Publication Place: Brooklyn, New York, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/53895730/?article=2a24a672-3255-41c9-9416-84b673059ed5&focus=0.033932146,0.53212065,0.17624734,0.5567554&xid=2378

Name: Edward C. Towne
Gender: Male
Death Date: 20 Jun 1911
Death Place: Brooklyn, N. Y.
Obituary Date: 24 Jun 1911
Obituary Place: Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

burial

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Rev Edward Cornelius Towne
Birth 9 Oct 1834 Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death 20 Jun 1911 (aged 76) Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Burial Vine Hills Cemetery, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot 365 & 366
Memorial ID 135261932