Orville James Victor
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Orville James Victor (October 23, 1827 – March 14, 1910) was an American writer and editor in chief.<ref name="Victor">Template:Cite book</ref>
Biography
Victor was born in Sandusky, Ohio to Henry Clay Victor and Gertrude Nash Victor, and had seven siblings; his father operated a hotel in Sandusky.<ref>Orville James Victor, Author and Editor, Sandusky Library</ref>
He studied in the Norwalk Seminary and graduated in 1847. He decided to pursue writing as a profession and in 1852 was hired as an assistant-editor of the Sandusky Daily Register.<ref>Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 6, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, p. 287.</ref> After marrying Metta Victoria Fuller in 1856, he moved with his wife to New York City where he edited the Cosmopolitan Art Journal and other publications.<ref>Early Periodical Literature of the Ohio Valley, By William Henry Venable, p. 37.</ref> In 1861, Erastus Flavel Beadle recruited him as an editor for the Beadle firm, and Victor worked there for the next thirty-six years. Gilbert Patten wrote, "Mr. Victor taught me much . . . He was a cold-appearing, austere man, but one of the kindest and most helpful editors I've ever known."<ref name="biography"/>
During the American Civil War Victor wrote two books, History of the Southern Rebellion<ref>Victor, Orville J. The History ... of the Southern Rebellion, From Its Incipient Stages to Its Close .... New York: J.D. Torrey, 1861.</ref> and History of American Conspiracies.<ref>Victor, Orville J. History of American Conspiracies: a Record of Treason, Insurrection, Rebellion & C., In the United States of America, From 1760 to 1860. New York: J. D. Torrey, 1863.</ref> In 1863 he visited England and published a pamphlet there entitled, "The American Rebellion; Its Causes and Objects: Facts for the English People."<ref name="Victor"/>
Victor died at his home in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, on March 14, 1910, eighty-three years old.<ref name="biography">"Victor, Orville J.", Northern Illinois University, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 1, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2013. "Victor died at his home in Hohokus, New Jersey, March 14, 1910, at the age of eighty-three."</ref>
Family
His wife, Metta Victoria Fuller, an author, died in Hohokus Township, New Jersey on June 26, 1886.<ref>Kate Stine. The Victors & the House of Beadle and Adams, Mystery Scene, Fall Issue No. 81.</ref> He did not remarry and grieved her death until the end of his life.
John Harvey Whitson, a contributor to the Beadle's dime novel series, described Victor's loss in the following words,Template:Quote
Recognition
The now-defunct Orvil Township, in Bergen County, New Jersey, was named in his honor in 1885.<ref>Van Valen, James M. History of Bergen county, New Jersey. New York: New Jersey Publishing and Engraving Co., 1900, p. 211.</ref>
Orville James Victor is remembered for his long-time editorial work, from 1861 till 1897, for Beadle publishing company and for his own historical biographies and history books.<ref name="biography"/>
References
Further reading
- Johanssen, Albert. The House of Beadle & Adams. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.
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- 1827 births
- 1910 deaths
- American publishers (people)
- People from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
- People from Sandusky, Ohio
- Dime novelists
- 19th-century American businesspeople
- 19th-century American publishers (people)
- Businesspeople from Ohio
- American male novelists
- 19th-century American novelists
- American male non-fiction writers
- 19th-century American non-fiction writers
- 19th-century American male writers
- Writers from Bergen County, New Jersey