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Stoddard, William Osborn

journalist, inventor, author, was born Sept. 24, 1835, in Homer N. Y. He is a journalist and inventor whose writings have been largely though not entirely for juvenile readers, and have been very popular. He is the author of Little Smoke; The Windfall; Esau Hardery; Dab Kinzer; Saltillo Boys; Wrecked; Verses of Many Days; The Heart of It; The White Cave, an Australian Story; The Red Mustang; Two Arrows; Among the Lakes; The Quartet; Winter Fun; Men of Business; The Talking Leaves; The Volcano Under the City, a story of the draft riots in New York; Lives of the Presidents; Gid Granger; and Chuck Purdy.