Background
Read, John Elliot was born on January 4, 1845 in S. Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson) Read.
Read, John Elliot was born on January 4, 1845 in S. Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson) Read.
Education high school.
Since 1865 has written largely for agricultural papers and occasionally for literature and religious journals. Was associate editor The Working Farmer, New York, 10 years. Correspondent editor of The Practical Farmer, Philadelphia, 12 years.
On editorial staff Men of Mark in America, 1903-1909.
Since in agricultural journalism. Author: Farming for Profit, 1880 (with George J. Hagar and A. H. Guernsey, Doctor of Philosophy).
Within and Beyond the States, volunteer 2 of Our Great Continent, 1889. Life Triumphant: A Study of the Nature, Origin and Destiny of Manitoba, 1900.
Wrote many agricultural, horticultural, and live stock articles in the last 18 volumes of the Columbian Cyclopaedia, 1889-1894.
Wrote, A Brief History of the Principal Earlier Arctic Explorations from the Ninth Century to the Peary Expedition, forming concluding section of Nansen in the Frozen World, 1897. Home: 108 Nichols Avenue, Eastwood, New New York
Married Luthera R. Ross, of Montague, Massachusetts, May 29, 1871.