Ingraham, JOSEPH HOLT

Ingraham, JOSEPH HOLT, author of The Prince of the House of David, was born at Portland, Maine, in 1809, was for some time a sailor, and afterwards taught languages at a college in Mississippi. He published a string of wild romances, such as Captain Kyd and Lafitte, or the Pirate of the Gulf; but after he was ordained to the Episcopal ministry, in 1855, he chose biblical subjects for his stories, and wrote The Prince of the House of David (1855), The Pillar of Fire (1859), and The Throne of David (1860). He died in 1860.