Cyrus townsend brady biography of christopher

Cyrus Townsend Brady

American journalist, historian and adventure writer (–)

Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, – January 24, ) was an American priest, journalist, historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is Indian Fights and Fighters.

Background

He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in In , he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in His second wife was Mary Barrett.

Cyrus townsend brady biography of christopher The Bradys were a Scotch-Irish family that had been settled in Pennsylvania since about and from generation to generation had displayed a genius for frontier fighting and for begetting numerous sons as bellicose as their fathers. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U. After dinner he excused himself and returned to the church. Cyrus Brady died of pneumonia at his home in Yonkers, New York, January 24, , after an illness of two days.

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, one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy.[1]

Brady was also famous for his opposition to feminism and Women's suffrage: he preached many anti-suffrage sermons and described women voters as "an insult to God".[2]

In , Brady began working as a screenwriter at Vitagraph Company of America.[3]

Brady died in Yonkers, New York of pneumonia at age [citation needed]

Selected works

A detailed list of Brady's work can be found at The Online Books Page.[4] Among his better known books are listed below; starred works are considered to be fantastic literature:[5]

  • The Island of Regeneration ()
  • For Love of Country ()
  • American Fights and Fighters ()
  • Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West ()
  • Hohenzollern: A Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa ()
  • The Southerners ()
  • A Little Traitor to the South ()
  • A Midshipman in the Pacific ()
  • Indian Fights and Fighters ()
  • The Corner in Coffee ()
  • Three Daughters of the Confederacy ()
  • The Patriots ()
  • Northwestern Fights and Fighters ()
  • As the Sparks Fly Upward * ()
  • Bob Dashaway Privateersman ()
  • Hearts and the Highway ()
  • Secret Service ()
  • The Chalice of Courage: A Romance of Colorado adapted into a six part Vitagraph film[6]
  • The Island of the Stairs * ()
  • Britton of the Seventh: A Romance of Custer and the Great Northwest A.C.

    McClurg & Co. Chicago ()

  • And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons ()
  • By the World Forgot * ()
  • Little France

Many more titles by Cyrus Townsend Brady are listed in: American Fiction, – A Bibliography by Geoffrey D.

Smith, pp.&#;75–

References

  1. ^Author's preface to For Love of Country ()
  2. ^"Sees Woman Voter as an Insult to God"(PDF). The New York Times. October 18, Retrieved November 24,
  3. ^Erish, Andrew A., Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio, Chapter 5, (Lexington, KY, ; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 23 Sept.

    ), , accessed 2 Feb.

  4. ^Ockerbloom, John Mark (ed.). "Cyrus Townsend Brady (Brady, Cyrus Townsend, )".

    Cyrus townsend brady biography of christopher columbus Smith, pp. As the cold orange globe of the winter sun ascended over the rolling plains, a two-horse sleigh glided atop the snow on Christmas Day following a fierce blizzard the night before. Arrangement of the Collection The collection contains one series, Correspondence, which is divided into two subseries: Incoming correspondence and Outgoing correspondence. 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, one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy.

    The Online Books Page. Retrieved November 24,

  5. ^Bleiler, Everett (). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers.
  6. ^"AFI&#;Catalog".

External links

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