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Samuel Fallows
1835–1922
An English-born minister, teacher, soldier, and prolific writer, he led a life that touched public education, church history, and the Civil War. His books reflect the wide-ranging curiosity of a man who moved easily between the pulpit, the classroom, and public life.
2 Audiobooks
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
by Richard Linthicum, Samuel Fallows, Trumbull White
About the author
Born in England in 1835 and brought to the United States as a child, Samuel Fallows built an unusually varied career as a minister, educator, lecturer, and author. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1859 and went on to become a well-known public figure in Wisconsin and later in Chicago.
During the American Civil War, he served first as a chaplain and later as a Union Army officer, eventually receiving the brevet rank of brigadier general. After the war, he continued his work in education and religion, serving as Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction and then as a leading figure in the Reformed Episcopal Church, where he was presiding bishop for many years.
Fallows also wrote extensively, producing biographies, religious works, and reference books. That breadth shows in his career as a whole: he was not simply an author who stayed at a desk, but a writer shaped by firsthand experience in ministry, politics, reform, and war.