Literary Figure. A riverboat pilot, he was the co-pilot on the steamboats Pennsylvania and Alfred T. Lacey on which Samuel Clemens was a cub pilot. He greatly influenced the cub's education by reading classics aloud to him and Clemens recalled arguing the authorship of the Shakespeare plays with him. A story that Clemens wrote about George Ealer can be found in Chapter XI of "Life On the Mississippi." The photo here is of his gravesite location. His grave is unmarked.
Literary Figure. A riverboat pilot, he was the co-pilot on the steamboats Pennsylvania and Alfred T. Lacey on which Samuel Clemens was a cub pilot. He greatly influenced the cub's education by reading classics aloud to him and Clemens recalled arguing the authorship of the Shakespeare plays with him. A story that Clemens wrote about George Ealer can be found in Chapter XI of "Life On the Mississippi." The photo here is of his gravesite location. His grave is unmarked.
Bio by: Connie Nisinger
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