Sylvanus Cobb (1823–1887)

American author, son of the preceding; born in 1823, in Waterville, ME; died on the 20th of July 1887, in Hyde Park, MA. He was an active writer and editor. He published The Rechabite and New England Washingtonian. The King’s Talisman; Ben-Hamed; and The Patriot Cruiser, are the best known of a number of tales written by him. The Autobiography of Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, with a memoir, was issued in Boston in 1867. His stories in the New York Ledger first attracted attention to that paper. See also The Gun-Maker of Moscow.