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Author Sylvanus Cobb Jr was an American popular fiction writer 1823-1887.
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Sylvanus Cobb was an American novelist of popular fiction during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the New York Ledger, The Flag of Our Union, The Weekly Novelette, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and elsewhere.
Background
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. was born on June 05, 1823 in Waterville, Maine, United States. He was the eldest of the nine children of the Reverend Sylvanus Cobb and his wife, Eunice Hale Waite. From his parents, Who were of deep-rooted New England stock, he acquired certain Yankee and Puritan traits—resourcefulness, thrift, uprightness, and piety—that, softened by the sentimentality of the period and undisciplined by any intellectual or aesthetic training, shaped his character and colored his writing. His boyhood and youth were spent in Malden, Massachusetts.
Education
He was scribbling fiction at the age of eleven and displayed his lifelong regard for grammar and the mechanics of style almost equally early by getting himself expelled from high school for disputing with the teacher over a nice problem in parsing. His father had him learn the printer's trade, but at seventeen the boy ran away from home and enlisted at Boston (February 1841) in the navy.
Career
Service on the United States frigates Brandywine and Fairfield gave him glimpses of various Mediterranean ports and a nautical vocabularly that later was a useful part of his literary paraphernalia. In May 1846, with his brother Samuel he started the Rechabite, a paper devoted--apparently in the order of decreasing intensity--to "temperance, moral elevation, literature, and general intelligence. " Although Cobb's fiction began to appear in the second number, the real feature of the Rechabite was its amazingly vituperative attack, in the name of temperance, on innumerable prominent New Englanders and on such national figures as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and President Polk, who was accused of turning the executive mansion at Washington into "a free tippling house. " From 1850 on Cobb devoted himself assiduously to the manufacture of popular fiction. His stories invariably contained the maximum amount of excitement compatible with strict morality. A facile style, an unfailing knack for simple characterization and for devising melodramatic incident against romantic backgrounds, and complete harmony in sentiment and ideas between the author and his enormous--and enormously naïve--audience, made his work immediately and continuously popular. From 1850 to 1856 he was on the staff of Gleason's Flag of Our Union and Pictorial Drawing Room, writing 36 novelettes and 200 short stories for the two magazines, besides doing much work for other publications. From March 1856 till his death (July 20, 1887) he wrote for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger. To the Ledger he contributed 130 novelettes, 30 Forest Sketches, 72 Forest Adventures, 102 Sketches of Adventure, 57 Scraps of Adventure from an Old Sailor's Logbook, 573 other short stories, and 2, 305 shorter items. Not content with writing for a living, for thirty-five years he kept a diary, in which he never failed to note the state of the weather. From 1869 till his death he made his home in Hyde Park, Massachussets; previously he had lived at Norway.
Cobb joined the Freemasons in Norway, Maine in 1854.
Personality
He was almost six feet tall and weighed almost two hundred pounds. With his broad, smooth forehead, long hair, and flowing beard, he was an impressive figure.
Connections
On June 29, 1845, Cobb was married to Jane Head of Waltham, Massachusetts.