Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Longstreth, Thomas Morris
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- T. Morris Longstreth
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Description area
Dates of existence
1886-1975
History
Thomas Morris Longstreth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 17, 1886. He attended Haverford College, graduating in 1908. After graduation he became a travelling tutor and teacher. He authored his first book "The Adirondacks" in 1917. At the time he was teaching in Kingston, Ontario. He wrote over 40 books in his career. He started out writing travel journals on the Adirondacks, the Laurentians, the Catskills, and wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln’s son. Eventually he wrote historical fiction. He died in Philadelphia in 1975.