Edward S. Ellis
Ellis, Edward Sylvester
April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916 (aged 76)
Birth place: Geneva, Ohio, USA
"Ellis established the dime novel as a commercial field with Seth Jones (1860), and instigated Dime-Novel SF and the Edisonade through his instant adaptation of the historical Newark Steam Man of 1868 into a Western ..." --SFE3, biog. entry by Bleiler and Clute