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F. T. (Franklin Titus) Ives
1828–1910
A Connecticut businessman with a taste for bold ideas, he is remembered for a curious early-20th-century book that argues for a hollow Earth. His work now stands as an unusual snapshot of speculative thought from its time.
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The Hollow Earth
by F. T. (Franklin Titus) Ives
About the author
Born in Meriden, Connecticut, on August 19, 1828, Franklin Titus Ives was an American businessman and writer. Reliable catalog and reference sources connect him with at least two books: Yankee Jumbles (1903) and The Hollow Earth (1904).
He is best known today for The Hollow Earth, a nonfiction work presenting and defending hollow-earth ideas associated with John Cleves Symmes. The book is often remembered less as accepted science than as an example of the era's fascination with big, unconventional theories.
Ives died in Meriden on January 30, 1910. Although he is not a widely known literary figure, his writing has lasted as a small but memorable piece of American speculative and fringe thought.