Writer. Walter D. Edmonds was a writer of historical fiction, both for children and adults. Perhaps his best known work was "Drums Along the Mohawk" set during the American Revolution in upstate New York. It was made into a 1939 motion picture directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. He also wrote "Rome Haul" about life on the Erie Canal during the 1850's after having listened to tales of old canellers who were his neighbors during his childhood in upstate New York. He was awarded a Newbery Medal for his children's book "The Matchlock Gun", about a young boy who defends his home during colonial times against Indians. Edmonds once said he was "a fancy reporter who reports on the past instead of the present". He vividly recreated the vanished world of his beloved Mohawk Valley where he spent his childhood summers at the family farm in Booneville, New York.
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WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS '26, L.T.D. '52, died January 24 in Concord, Mass. He was an historical novelist known for his realistic representations of times past as revealed through the lives of ordinary characters. A former president of this magazine's board of directors, he had started publishing fiction while at Harvard, where he edited the Advocate. His most famous work was Drums along the Mohawk, about settlers in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution. Half of his 34 books were for children, including The Matchlock Gun, which won the Newbery Medal, and Bert Breen's Barn, which won the National Book Award. He leaves two daughters, Eleanor Cogswell and Sarah Broley '60, a son, Peter, two stepdaughters, Sally Easton and Janet Baker-Carr, Ed.M. '79, a stepson, Christopher Baker-Carr, and a sister, Mary; two wives, Eleanor (Stetson), and Katharine (Howe Baker-Carr), predeceased him.
Published in Harvard University Obituary and Death Notice Collection.
He was born on July 15, 1903, at his family's summer retreat outside Boonville, N.Y., near the Black River. In 1926 he graduated from Harvard College. Although his father, a patent lawyer, wanted him to become a chemical engineer, Mr. Edmonds found another path. He started publishing his fiction at Harvard and became the editor of The Advocate, Harvard's literary magazine.....In 1930, Mr. Edmonds married Eleanor Livingston Stetson. After she died, in 1956, he married Katharine May Howe Baker-Carr. She died in 1989.
Mr. Edmonds is survived by his sister, Mary Elizabeth Edmonds, of Walton-on-Thames, England; a son, Peter Bulkeley Edmonds of Mesa, Ariz.; two daughters, Eleanor Livingston Cogswell of Amherst, Mass., and Sarah May Edmonds Broley of Washington; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by three stepchildren, Christopher Baker-Carr of Hempstead, N.Y.; Sally Easton of Fife, Scotland, and Janet Baker-Carr of Jackson, Miss., as well as nine stepgrandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren....
Information extracted from the New York Times, Jan. 28, 1998
(From starfishin - June 2017)
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A search of the Mount Auburn records indicates the following:
WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS
Born: UnknownDied: UnknownService: 01/29/1998
Path: Story Chapel Colum
Lot: Col 4
Site: B
Grave: 1
Contributor: Hendrika --- Vande Kemp (49691723) •Dec 2021
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WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS '26, L.T.D. '52, died January 24 in Concord, Mass. He was an historical novelist known for his realistic representations of times past as revealed through the lives of ordinary characters. A former president of this magazine's board of directors, he had started publishing fiction while at Harvard, where he edited the Advocate. His most famous work was Drums along the Mohawk, about settlers in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution. Half of his 34 books were for children, including The Matchlock Gun, which won the Newbery Medal, and Bert Breen's Barn, which won the National Book Award. He leaves two daughters, Eleanor Cogswell and Sarah Broley '60, a son, Peter, two stepdaughters, Sally Easton and Janet Baker-Carr, Ed.M. '79, a stepson, Christopher Baker-Carr, and a sister, Mary; two wives, Eleanor (Stetson), and Katharine (Howe Baker-Carr), predeceased him.
Published in Harvard University Obituary and Death Notice Collection.
He was born on July 15, 1903, at his family's summer retreat outside Boonville, N.Y., near the Black River. In 1926 he graduated from Harvard College. Although his father, a patent lawyer, wanted him to become a chemical engineer, Mr. Edmonds found another path. He started publishing his fiction at Harvard and became the editor of The Advocate, Harvard's literary magazine.....In 1930, Mr. Edmonds married Eleanor Livingston Stetson. After she died, in 1956, he married Katharine May Howe Baker-Carr. She died in 1989.
Mr. Edmonds is survived by his sister, Mary Elizabeth Edmonds, of Walton-on-Thames, England; a son, Peter Bulkeley Edmonds of Mesa, Ariz.; two daughters, Eleanor Livingston Cogswell of Amherst, Mass., and Sarah May Edmonds Broley of Washington; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by three stepchildren, Christopher Baker-Carr of Hempstead, N.Y.; Sally Easton of Fife, Scotland, and Janet Baker-Carr of Jackson, Miss., as well as nine stepgrandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren....
Information extracted from the New York Times, Jan. 28, 1998
(From starfishin - June 2017)
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A search of the Mount Auburn records indicates the following:
WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS
Born: UnknownDied: UnknownService: 01/29/1998
Path: Story Chapel Colum
Lot: Col 4
Site: B
Grave: 1
Contributor: Hendrika --- Vande Kemp (49691723) •Dec 2021
Writer. Walter D. Edmonds was a writer of historical fiction, both for children and adults. Perhaps his best known work was "Drums Along the Mohawk" set during the American Revolution in upstate New York. It was made into a 1939 motion picture directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. He also wrote "Rome Haul" about life on the Erie Canal during the 1850's after having listened to tales of old canellers who were his neighbors during his childhood in upstate New York. He was awarded a Newbery Medal for his children's book "The Matchlock Gun", about a young boy who defends his home during colonial times against Indians. Edmonds once said he was "a fancy reporter who reports on the past instead of the present". He vividly recreated the vanished world of his beloved Mohawk Valley where he spent his childhood summers at the family farm in Booneville, New York.
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WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS '26, L.T.D. '52, died January 24 in Concord, Mass. He was an historical novelist known for his realistic representations of times past as revealed through the lives of ordinary characters. A former president of this magazine's board of directors, he had started publishing fiction while at Harvard, where he edited the Advocate. His most famous work was Drums along the Mohawk, about settlers in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution. Half of his 34 books were for children, including The Matchlock Gun, which won the Newbery Medal, and Bert Breen's Barn, which won the National Book Award. He leaves two daughters, Eleanor Cogswell and Sarah Broley '60, a son, Peter, two stepdaughters, Sally Easton and Janet Baker-Carr, Ed.M. '79, a stepson, Christopher Baker-Carr, and a sister, Mary; two wives, Eleanor (Stetson), and Katharine (Howe Baker-Carr), predeceased him.
Published in Harvard University Obituary and Death Notice Collection.
He was born on July 15, 1903, at his family's summer retreat outside Boonville, N.Y., near the Black River. In 1926 he graduated from Harvard College. Although his father, a patent lawyer, wanted him to become a chemical engineer, Mr. Edmonds found another path. He started publishing his fiction at Harvard and became the editor of The Advocate, Harvard's literary magazine.....In 1930, Mr. Edmonds married Eleanor Livingston Stetson. After she died, in 1956, he married Katharine May Howe Baker-Carr. She died in 1989.
Mr. Edmonds is survived by his sister, Mary Elizabeth Edmonds, of Walton-on-Thames, England; a son, Peter Bulkeley Edmonds of Mesa, Ariz.; two daughters, Eleanor Livingston Cogswell of Amherst, Mass., and Sarah May Edmonds Broley of Washington; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by three stepchildren, Christopher Baker-Carr of Hempstead, N.Y.; Sally Easton of Fife, Scotland, and Janet Baker-Carr of Jackson, Miss., as well as nine stepgrandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren....
Information extracted from the New York Times, Jan. 28, 1998
(From starfishin - June 2017)
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A search of the Mount Auburn records indicates the following:
WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS
Born: UnknownDied: UnknownService: 01/29/1998
Path: Story Chapel Colum
Lot: Col 4
Site: B
Grave: 1
Contributor: Hendrika --- Vande Kemp (49691723) •Dec 2021
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WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS '26, L.T.D. '52, died January 24 in Concord, Mass. He was an historical novelist known for his realistic representations of times past as revealed through the lives of ordinary characters. A former president of this magazine's board of directors, he had started publishing fiction while at Harvard, where he edited the Advocate. His most famous work was Drums along the Mohawk, about settlers in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution. Half of his 34 books were for children, including The Matchlock Gun, which won the Newbery Medal, and Bert Breen's Barn, which won the National Book Award. He leaves two daughters, Eleanor Cogswell and Sarah Broley '60, a son, Peter, two stepdaughters, Sally Easton and Janet Baker-Carr, Ed.M. '79, a stepson, Christopher Baker-Carr, and a sister, Mary; two wives, Eleanor (Stetson), and Katharine (Howe Baker-Carr), predeceased him.
Published in Harvard University Obituary and Death Notice Collection.
He was born on July 15, 1903, at his family's summer retreat outside Boonville, N.Y., near the Black River. In 1926 he graduated from Harvard College. Although his father, a patent lawyer, wanted him to become a chemical engineer, Mr. Edmonds found another path. He started publishing his fiction at Harvard and became the editor of The Advocate, Harvard's literary magazine.....In 1930, Mr. Edmonds married Eleanor Livingston Stetson. After she died, in 1956, he married Katharine May Howe Baker-Carr. She died in 1989.
Mr. Edmonds is survived by his sister, Mary Elizabeth Edmonds, of Walton-on-Thames, England; a son, Peter Bulkeley Edmonds of Mesa, Ariz.; two daughters, Eleanor Livingston Cogswell of Amherst, Mass., and Sarah May Edmonds Broley of Washington; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by three stepchildren, Christopher Baker-Carr of Hempstead, N.Y.; Sally Easton of Fife, Scotland, and Janet Baker-Carr of Jackson, Miss., as well as nine stepgrandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren....
Information extracted from the New York Times, Jan. 28, 1998
(From starfishin - June 2017)
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A search of the Mount Auburn records indicates the following:
WALTER DUMAUX EDMONDS
Born: UnknownDied: UnknownService: 01/29/1998
Path: Story Chapel Colum
Lot: Col 4
Site: B
Grave: 1
Contributor: Hendrika --- Vande Kemp (49691723) •Dec 2021
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