Patchogue - Literary History

Literary History of Patchogue, NY

--  King, George S.

• Dr. George S. King Park  (New York Historical Markers [Bay Shore, NY]; Waymarkers.com)

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• King, George S.  Doctor on a Bicycle.  New York:  Rinehart, 1958.
• King, George S.  Last Slaver.  New York:  Putnam, 1933. -- The Wanderer

--  McGonigle, Thomas

• McGonigle, Thomas  (ABC Of Reading - blogspot.com)

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• McGonigle, Thomas.  Going to Patchogue:  A Novel.  Elwood Park, IL:  Dalkey Archive Press, 1992.

--  Overton, Frank B., 1867-[19??]  [Physician, Author of standard college medical textbooks; early Trustee of Patchogue Library]

• Dr. Frank Overton  (Brookhaven/South Haven Hamlets and their People)

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• Overton, Frank B.  General Hygiene. New York:  American Book Co., 1913.
• Overton, Frank B.  Personal Hygiene.  New York:  American Book Co., 1913.
• Overton, Frank B. and Willard J. Denno.  The Health Officer.  Philadelphia; London:  W.B. Saunders Co., 1919.
• The Congregational Church of Patchogue, N.Y.:  A History; Prepared for the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Church on January 14, 1793, [comp.] by Frank Overton.  Amityville, NY:  Long Island Forum, 1943. 

--  Overton, Grant Martin, 1887-1930  [Novelist]

• Grant Martin Overton  (Find a Grave.   Cedar Grove Cemetery)
• Grant Martin Overton (University of Pennsylvania.  Online Books Page)

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• Overton, Grant Martin.  The Women Who Make Our Novels.  New York:  Moffat, Yard, 1918, repr. 1919.
• Overton, Grant Martin.  The Answerer.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921.
• Overton, Grant Martin.  American Nights Entertainment.  New York:  Appleton and Co., 1923
• Overton, Grant Martin.  Island of the Innocent.  New York:  George H. Doran, 1923.
• Overton, Grant Martin.  Cargoes for Crusoes.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Co., 1924.
• Overton, Grant Martin.  The Thousand and First Night.  New York:  George H. Doran, 1924.

-- Porter, Sylvia Feldman, 1913-1991

• Sylvia Porter (Wikipedia)

-- Roberts, Betsey Ann Smith  [acid-penned (vitriolic) poet; one of Patchogue's "Four Sisters"]

• Roberts, Betsey Ann Smith.  Original Poems, 2nd ed.  [Patchogue, NY:]  Patchogue Advance Print, 1894.  (Internet Archive)
• Roberts, Betsey Ann Smith.  What an Old Horse Said.  Patchogue, NY:  Printed at the Office of the "Advance", 1876.  (Internet Archive)

--  Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince), 1806-1893

          [Nationally-renowned American author, poet, lecturer, abolitionist, early suffragist; wife of American nationally-known humorist Seba Smith; arrived in Patchogue, 1860, moved to Blue Point, NY, 1869; then to Beaufort, NC, d.1893, buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, eventually removed to Lakeview Cemetery, Patchogue]

---  General  

• Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith  (Wikipedia)
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893)  (Portraits of American Women Writers, That Appeared in Print Before 1861)
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith:  Poet, Writer, Feminist Lecturer, Essayist, and Playwright, and Mother  (Professor Timothy Scherman, Northeastern Illinois University) - excellent site, with the following sections:  Works, Chronology, Links & Criticism, Unrepublished Writings, Blog Space, and Contact.  
• MacLean, Maggie.   Elizabeth Oakes Smith  (Civil War Women)
• Smith, Elizabeth Oakes  (Maine, An Encyclopedia)  -- She and her husband originally hailed from Maine, traveled extensively and lived in several Long Island locations.

---  Bibliography

• Elizabeth (Prince) Oakes Smith:  Literary Grande Dame of Patchogue, NY, 1860-ca. 1875:  A Selected Bibliography  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

---  Collections

• Elizabeth Oakes Smith Collection, 1842-2006  (University of New England.  Maine Women Writers Collection [MWWC])
• A Guide to the Papers of Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith, 1823-1894:  A Collection in Special Collections, The University of Virginia Library, Accession Number 38-707  (University of Virginia.  Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library) 

---  Chronology

• Chronology (Elizabeth Oakes [Prince] Smith, [1806-1893]) 

----  Edgar Allen Poe, Death of 

• Elizabeth Oakes Smith:  "She Sent an Emissary to Enforce the Delivery...He was Cruelly Beaten..."  (Scarriet.wordpress.com)

---  Gravesite (Current)

• Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Find-a-Grave)
• Gravesite of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (from Timothy Scherman of Northeatern Illinois University)

---  History - Civil War, 1861-1865

• Elizabeth Oakes Smith:  Writer and Women's Rights Activist  (Civil War Women Blog)
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Life in Patchogue During the Civil War, by Lauren Elizabeth Christie (Dude, Where am I?, March 12, 2011) 

---  Literary Criticism

• Links to Selected Criticism on the Life and Work of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (From Professor Timothy Scherman)

---  Novels & Dime-Novels

• Riches Without Wings, Or, the Cleveland Family, by Mrs. Seba [Elizabeth Oakes] Smith (1839)  (Google Books; Internet Archive)
• The Western Captive, or The Times of Tecumseh [The New World, 2(3-4)October 1842]  (Internet Archive)
• The May Flower for M DCCC XLVIII, ed. by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1848) (Internet Archive) - interesting as the year of the democratic revolts in Europe and end of the end of the U.S.-Mexican War
• The Newsboy, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1854) (Internet Archive)
• Bertha and Lily; Or, the Parsonage of Beech Glen, A Romance, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1854) (Internet Archive)
• Oakes Smith's Lost (Fourth) "Indian" Novel (Timothy Scherman)

---  Poetry

• Annihilation  (Poetry Archive)
• The Drowned Mariner  (Bartleby.com)
• The Sinless Child, and Other Poems, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith, ed. by John Keese (1843)  (Internet Archive)
• An Incident [1843]  (Poetry Archive)
• The Unattained  [1843]  (Poetry Archive)
• Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 2nd ed. (1846)  (Internet Archive)
• A Summer Morning Picture [n.d.]  (Poetry Archive)

---  Quotations

• Elizabeth Oakes Smith (nee Prince), American Poet and Author (1806-1893)  (GIGA-Quotes)

---  Women's Rights and Women's Suffrage

• Performing Womanhood:  The Lyceum Lectures of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, by Angela G. Ray  (Northeastern Illinois University) 
• Woman and Her Needs (1851) [serialized articles in the New York Tribune] ) (Timothy Scherman)

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• Tarzia, Ann.  Elizabeth Oakes Smith:  A Woman Not of Her Time [B.A. thesis].  {Patchogue, NY]:  St. Joseph's College, 1984.
• Oakes (Prince) Smith, Elizabeth.  ed. by Mary Alice Wyman.  New York:  Arno Press, 1924, repr. 1980.
• Richards, Wynola L.  A review of the life and writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith : feminist, author, and lecturer, 1806-1893.
• Gombieski, Jane S. and Mallory Leoniak.  To Get the Vote:  Woman Suffrage Leaders in Suffolk County
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith: selected writings. Volume I, Emergence and fame, 1831-1849.  ed. by Timothy H. Scherman.  Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, [2023]
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith: selected writings. Volume II, Feminist journalism and public activism, 1850-1854.  ed. by Timothy H. Scherman.  Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, [2024]

-- Smith, Seba, 1792-1868  [husband of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, nationally-renowned American political humorist, arrived in Patchogue, 1860, d. 1868, husband of Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith; buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Patchogue; removed to Lakeview Cemetery, Patchogue]

---  General

• Seba Smith (Wikipedia)
• "Seba Smith" [search results] (Internet Archive)

---  Gravesite

•  Seba Smith  (Find a Grave)

---  Works

• The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, by Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (1834)  (Internet Archive) - This book established Smith as dean of the faux-folksy style of American political humor, in whose tradition or footsteps, Artemus War, Finley Peter Dunne, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Will Rogers, and perhaps Bob Hope would follow.  
• Powhatan; A Metrical Romance, in Seven Cantos, by Seba Smith (1841)  (Internet Archive) 
• Dew Drops of the Nineteenth Century; Gathered and Preserved in Their Brightness and Purity, by Seba Smith (1846)  (Internet Archive) 
• New Elements of Geometry, by Seba Smith (1850)  (Internet Archive) - a serious interest, for many years a standard textbook
• My Thirty Years Out of the Senate, by Major Jack Downing [comic alias of Seba Smith] (1859)  (Internet Archive)
• Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (1864)  (Internet Archive) - actually ed. by his son, while Seba Smith was living in Patchogue.  Most of the "letters" had originally been penned decades earlier.

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                 See also  L.I. - Patchogue - Biography - Smith, Seba  vertical file

• Two American Pioneers: Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith / by Mary Alice Wyman, Ph.D., Submitted in Partial Pulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University (1927)