{"id":1017,"date":"2012-05-08T14:41:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:16:23","slug":"de-leon-thomas-cooper-1839-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"De LEON, THOMAS COOPER, 1839-1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor, writer. Born– May 21, 1839, Columbia, S.C. Parents– Mardici Heninrich and Rebecca (Lopez y Nunez) De Leon, Education– Attended Rugby Academy\u00a0and Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. Employed as a clerk for the Topographical Engineering Bureau, 1858-1861; served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865; edited Cosmopolite Magazine, 1865-1866; wrote for various New York newspapers and magazines, and translated French novels, 1866-1867; managing editor of Mobile Register, 1868-1876; editor, 1877-, while continuing to write for national publications; \u00a0edited the Mobile papers\u00a0The Gossip and The Gulf Citizen, 1873-1896. Managed the Mobile Theater, 1873-1885. Organized and managed the Mobile Mardi Gras Carnival for 25 years;\u00a0created carnivals for several other cities.\u00a0\u00a0Published political writings under the name Dunne Browne. Lost his eyesight in 1903; sometimes called “The Blind Laureate of the Lost Cause.”\u00a0 Died March 19, 1914.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chaudron, Louis de V.\u00a0 Biographical Sketch of the Author, in De Leon, Four Years in Rebel Capitals.\u00a0 Mobile, Al.:\u00a0 Gossip Printing Company, 1982.<\/p>\n

Marquis Who’s Who online, and the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 5.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60s. New York; G.W. Dillingham, 1907.<\/p>\n

Coqsurcus; a Lay of a Very Late Encampment. Chicago; The Hanscom Printing Co., 1887.<\/p>\n

Crag-Nest. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1897.<\/p>\n

Creole and Puritan. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott, 1889.<\/p>\n

Creole Carnivals. Atlanta; Author, 1899.<\/p>\n

Cross Purposes. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1871.<\/p>\n

East, West and South. Mobile, Ala.; The Gossip Printing Co., 1891.<\/p>\n

Four Years in Rebel Capitals. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1890.<\/p>\n

An Innocent Cheat; or, Episodes of the Everlasting Comedy. New York; F. T. Neely, 1898.<\/p>\n

F. John Holden, Unionist. St. Paul, Minn.; Price-McGill, 1893.<\/p>\n

Joseph Wheeler; the Man, The Statesman, The Soldier. Atlanta; Byrd Printing, 1899.<\/p>\n

Juny; or, Only One Octoroon’s Story. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing Co., 1889.<\/p>\n

A Novelette Trilogy. London; F. T. Neely, 1897.<\/p>\n

Our Creole Carnivals. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Press, 1890.<\/p>\n

The Pride of the Mercers. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1898.<\/p>\n

The Puritan’s Daughter. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1891.<\/p>\n

The Rending of the Solid South. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing Co., 1895.<\/p>\n

The Rock or the Rye. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1888.<\/p>\n

Schooners That Bump on the Bar. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1894.<\/p>\n

Society as I Have Foundered It. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1890.<\/p>\n

Sybilla; a Romaunt of the Town. Mobile, Ala.; The Gossip Press, 1891.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Songs. New York; Bleilock & Co., 1860.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Thomas Cooper De Leon is held by the Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Editor, writer. Born– May 21, 1839, Columbia, S.C. Parents– Mardici Heninrich and Rebecca (Lopez y Nunez) De Leon, Education– Attended Rugby Academy\u00a0and Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. Employed as a clerk for the Topographical Engineering Bureau, 1858-1861; served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865; edited Cosmopolite Magazine, 1865-1866; wrote for various New York newspapers and magazines, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}