John Randolph Spears

John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) was an American author and journalist.

John Randolph Spears was born at Van Wert, Ohio on April 21, 1850.^[1]

He married Celestia Smiley on November 11, 1873.^[1]

In 1875, he became editor of the East Aurora Advertiser, and the next year he founded the Silver Creek Local. He was a reporter on the Buffalo Express from 1880 until 1882, when he joined the staff of the New York Sun.^[2] Later, devoting himself to writing, he settled at Little Falls, N. Y.

He died in Utica, New York on January 25, 1936.^[3]

• The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Dramatic Story of a Mountain Feud (1888)
• The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn (1895)
• The Port of Missing Ships and Other Stories of the Sea (1896)
• The History of Our Navy from its Origin to the Present Day (five volumes, 1897-1899)
• The Fugitive (1899)
• The American Slave Trade (1900; new edition, 1907)
• David G. Farragut (1905)
• A History of the United States Navy (1907)
• The Story of New England Whalers (1908)
• A History of the American Navy (1909)
• The Story of the American Merchant Marine (1910)
• Master Mariners (1911)

• Spears, John Randolph (1900). The American slave-trade: an account of its origin, growth, and suppression. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. OCLC 287496755. spears american slave trade. (Also 1927, 1960, 1971, 2008 editions)
• Spears, John Randolph (1922). Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer: an old-time sailor of the sea. New York: The Macmillan Co. OCLC 1834630. n.b. palmer.

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