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Melville De Lancey Landon was born on his father's farm at Eaton, Madison County, New York, son of John and Nancy (Marsh) Landon, both of old New England stock.
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Melville De Lancey Landon was born on his father's farm at Eaton, Madison County, New York, son of John and Nancy (Marsh) Landon, both of old New England stock.
After study in the district school and local academy he attended Madison (later Colgate) University and then Union College, graduating in 1861.
At the outbreak of the Civil War Landon joined the battalion organized by Cassius M. Clay for the defense of Washington. At the same time he served as a clerk in the Treasury Department. In 1863 he served with the rank of major on Gen. A. L. Chetlain's staff in Tennessee.
At the request of Secretary Chase he resigned and took up cotton growing in Louisiana and Arkansas with free labor, 1864-67, cultivating 1, 700 acres in 1867. Subsequently he traveled in Europe, visiting Paris, Rome, Athens, and St. Petersburg, and in the last-named capital was for a short time secretary to his former commander Clay, then minister to Russia.
Returning home in 1870, he prepared a compact digest, The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell (1871), and then took up journalism. His humorous correspondence from Saratoga for the New York Commercial Advertiser, which he signed "Lan" and later "Eli Perkins" (stated by Landon to have been applied to him by Artemus Ward) made him a reputation, and was collected under the title Saratoga in 1901 (1872). In 1875 he published Eli Perkins at Large: His Sayings and Doings.
After conducting a lecture tour for Josh Billings, he turned himself to platform humor. While his success on the platform is thus abundantly evidenced, his humor in print appears feebler and more largely anecdotal than that of some of his contemporaries; the "philosophical" element consists of plentifully illustrated distinctions between humor, wit, and satire. These popular readings and lectures he continued for many years. In 1879 he edited the Complete Works of Artemus Ward with a biographical introduction. Many of his books were republished under varying titles. His book entitled Money: Gold, Silver, or Bimetalism (1895) was a campaign document against free silver.
During his later years he frequently visited Europe and also toured the Orient, writing travel letters for New York and Chicago newspapers. He was president of the New York News Association, possessed considerable wealth, and at his residence in New York entertained many artistic and literary celebrities. His death from locomotor ataxia occurred at Yonkers, where he had made his home shortly before.
Landon in the ten years up to 1887 "delivered a thousand humorous and philosophical lectures through the Union. " His fame mainly rested on his work "Saratoga in 1901", published in 1872. He also wrote several collections, including "Wit and Humor of the Age" (1883); "Wise, Witty, Eloquent Kings of the Platform and Pulpit" (1890), and "Thirty Years of Wit" (1891).
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Landon was married in Grace Church, New York, March 22, 1875, to Emily Louise, daughter of the Rev. Edward Smith of Port Chester, New York. They had one daughter.
