Lloyd, John Uri
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Title
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Lloyd, John Uri
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Gender
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Male
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Biography
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John Uri Lloyd was born in 1849. His family moved to Florence when he was a small child. He was an eye-witness to the Civil War skirmish in Florence, which affected him through life. He became an apprentice in a pharmacy at about age 14 and soon memorized the entire pharmacopeia, in Latin, though he had little formal schooling.
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After becoming a pharmaceutical manufacturer he would write while his kettles boiled, and finished a number of novels in this manner. One of the most well-known is 'Etidorhpa' published in 1895. (The title is Aphrodite spelled backwards.) He also published a series about Florence, beginning with 'Stringtown on the Pike' published in 1900. Of this series 'Warwick of the Knobs' (1901) is often considered to be the best. He also published "Sam Hill Stories" in local periodicals, and these have been collected.
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'Stringtown on the Pike' was the first novel in John Uri Lloyd's Stringtown series. Stringtown was closely based on Lloyd's hometown of Florence, Kentucky. Several of the descriptions of places and events in the book are full of what would now be considered historical details. The description of court day in Burlington is a particularly nice example in which the past comes alive through Lloyd's writing. It was published in 1900, and was an immediate sensation throughout the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region.
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His passport application and other related documentation detail his travels near the end of his life. He traveled to the West Indies, South America and the Azoeres Islands, leaving from New York City on January 3, 1923 aboard the ship Metapan. He arrived at the Port of Los Angeles aboard the Tatsuta Maru from Yokohama, Japan on November 9, 1935.
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Lloyd died at his daughter's home in California in 1936. She brought his ashes back to Kentucky, and had them buried in Hopeful Lutheran Church Cemetery in Florence.
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Birth date
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18 Apr 1849
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Place of birth
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West Bloomfield (N.Y.)
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Life event(s)
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Marriage 1: 27 Dec 1876; location unknown
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Marriage 2: 10 Jun 1880; Crittenden (Ky.)
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Crittenden (Ky.)
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Child(ren)
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Lloyd, John Thomas
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Welbourn, Nancy Ann "Annie" Lloyd
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Brett, Dorothy Webster Lloyd
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Death date
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9 Apr 1936
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Place of death
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Van Nuys (Calif.)
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Occupation(s)
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Chemist
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Novelist
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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FindAGrave.com, memorial #167379750
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U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
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California, Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959
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California, U.S., Death Index, 1905-1939
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Source(s)
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Seventh Census of the United States, 1850
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Eighth Census of the United States, 1860
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Tenth Census of the United States, 1880
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Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900
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Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910
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Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920
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Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930
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Find A Grave.com
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Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775
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U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
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North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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