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An American journalist and story-writer; born at Eatonton, Georgia, Dec. 8, 1848. He began life as a printer's apprentice, and afterwards studied law, drifting finally into journalism. He had a thorough familiarity with the negro of the post-bellum period, and while editing an Atlanta paper he produced for it the series of "Uncle Remus" sketches and songs which immediately made him known. "The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation" appeared in 1880, followed by "Nights with Uncle Remus" (1883); "Mingo and Other Sketches" (1883); "Daddy Jake, the Runaway" (1889); "Uncle Remus" and "Br'er Rabbit" (1907). In a more serious vein is his biography of the lamented Henry W. Grady, a work of genuine power. He died July 3, 1908.