I lived from 1853-1932.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
Young Ewing Allison was a newspaperman who worked on various American newspapers notably the Courier-Journal and the Commercial based in Louisville.
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Young Ewing Allison was a newspaperman who worked on various American newspapers notably the Courier-Journal and the Commercial based in Louisville.
Eventually in 1887 he founded and edited The Insurance Field, a trade journal. He was editor until retirement in 1926.
Although known as an author and poet with several books to his credit he is principally known for his lyrics to "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" which he entitled Derelict. This was written, in 1900, for a musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
He took a fragment from the book and expanded it into a memorable poem, varieties of which are still being performed today.
He was a friend of James Whitcomb Riley.
Bibliography
1887 City of Louisville and a Glipmse of Kentucky
1897 On the vice of novel-reading
1907 Delicious Vice
1909 Delicious Vice (second series)
1924 Curious Legend of Louis Philippe in Kentucky
Links of interest include
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_E._Allison
My poetry
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
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