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Louis C. Dalton

Best known as the co-author of a classic early 20th-century swimming manual, this writer helped turn practical water safety and stroke technique into clear, approachable instruction. His surviving public record is slim, which gives his work an old-school, quietly specialized charm.

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Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old

Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old

by Frank Eugen Dalton, Louis C. Dalton

About the author

Louis C. Dalton is chiefly remembered for his contribution to Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old, a book credited to Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton. In the text, he is identified as being "of the Dalton Swimming School," and he is specifically credited with a chapter on advanced strokes.

Available catalog records add only a little more. Project Gutenberg lists him as Louis C. (Louis Cecil) Dalton, and the surviving bibliographic trail centered on this swimming book suggests that his published legacy is closely tied to physical instruction rather than a large body of literary work.

That makes Dalton an interesting figure for modern readers: not a celebrity author, but a practical specialist whose name survives because he helped explain a useful skill in a direct, teachable way. His work reflects an era when instructional books aimed to be both disciplined and encouraging, especially for everyday learners.