All Aboard or Life on the Lake - A Sequel to 'The Boat Club'

vi, 222, 20 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 - March 27, 1897) was a noted academic, author, and Massachusetts state legislator. He was born in Medway, Massachusetts in 1822 to Captain Laban Adams and Catherine Johnson Adams. William T. Adams from Who-When-What Book, 1900. He became a teacher in the Boston, Massachusetts public schools in 1845, and remained in that capacity through 1865. In 1846, he married Sarah Jenkins, with whom he had two children. He served as a member of the School Board of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for 14 years. In 1869, he became a member of the Massachusetts General Court. He died in Dorchester in 1897. Oliver Optic's All Adrift (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1892. His first book, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave (1853), was published under the pseudonym of Warren T. Ashton. He wrote many books of fiction for boys under the pseudonym "Oliver Optic", including: Indoors and Out (1855), The Boat Club (1855) and others, including novels about Civil War..."