Roe, Edward Payson
clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1838, in New Windsor, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, devoted himself to novel-writing. Barriers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near to Nature's Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A Knight of the Nineteenth Century: A Day of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl's Wooing; An Original Belle; Driven Back to Eden; Nature's Serial Story; The Earth Trembled; Miss Lou; Taken Alive, and Other Stories. He also published two horticultural books, The Home Acre; and Success with Small Fruits. He died July 19, 1888, in Cornwall, N. Y.