Lewis D. (Lewis Davis) Harlow

Lewis D. Harlow, or Lewis Davis Harlow, lived from 1818 to 1895. Surviving records connect him most clearly with medicine: he is listed as Lewis D. Harlow, M.D., and appears in 19th-century college and medical publications as a professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children.

Alongside that professional life, he also wrote books. His name is attached to Tuffy Todd's Adventure: A True Story, a work preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, which has helped keep his writing available to modern readers.

Not much widely documented biographical detail seems to survive beyond those basic facts, but what remains suggests an interesting dual career—part physician, part author. That combination gives his work a distinctive place among lesser-known American writers of the 1800s.