An American novelist, lawyer, and politician, born in Indiana, United States. He studied law and English history at the University of Michigan and was admitted to the Indiana bar association in 1877. He published his first novel, “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” under the pseudonym Edwin Caskoden, which later became a best-selling book before it was adapted into a Broadway play by Paul Kester at the Criterion Theatre, Among his other credits are Sweet Alyssum (1915) and Yolanda (1924). He died on February 13, 1913.