Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams

Born in New Orleans in 1845, Alexander St. Clair Abrams became known as an attorney, politician, and writer. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army, later worked in journalism, and wrote A full and detailed history of the siege of Vicksburg as well as the 1864 novel The Trials of the Soldier's Wife: A Tale of the Second American Revolution.

After the war, he built a career in Florida and became especially associated with central Florida's development. Sources describe him as a founder of Tavares, Florida, and note that he helped advance the bill creating Lake County in 1887. He was also a prominent lawyer in Orlando.

Abrams died in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1931. His life connects wartime writing, newspaper work, and the energetic local politics of the postwar South, giving his fiction an unusual background in both conflict and civic ambition.