William Perry Brown

Born near Ardmore in Indian Territory in 1847, he was the son of Brigadier General Philip Perry Brown and Sarah Jackson Brown. He attended Madison College, now Colgate University, but did not graduate, and began newspaper work while still young.

He reported for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the New Orleans Picayune, and the New York Globe, and also spent two or three years in England as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald. After that he built a long freelance career, publishing short stories and poems in a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including Youth's Companion, Ainslee's Magazine, Woman's World, and Forest and Stream.

He married Emma E. Hays in Glenville, West Virginia, in 1890, and for a time worked with Sam Walter Foss as an editor of the Yankee Blade in Boston. He later returned to freelance writing and continued almost until his death in Glenville on September 4, 1923. His longer works include A Sea Island Romance, Roriama, Ralph Granger's Fortunes, Vance Sevier, Florida Lads, The Easterners, Jackies of the Fleet, and Pilots of the Air.