Lloyd, John Uri

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Title
Lloyd, John Uri
Gender
Male
Biography
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
Member
Lloyd family
Birth date
18 Apr 1849
Place of birth
West Bloomfield (N.Y.)
Life event(s)
Marriage 1: 27 Dec 1876; location unknown
Marriage 2: 10 Jun 1880; Crittenden (Ky.)
Crittenden (Ky.)
Spouse(s)
Meader, Adeline
Rouse, Emma
Child(ren)
Lloyd, John Thomas
Welbourn, Nancy Ann "Annie" Lloyd
Brett, Dorothy Webster Lloyd
Death date
9 Apr 1936
Place of death
Van Nuys (Calif.)
Occupation(s)
Chemist
Novelist
Resided in
Lima (N.Y.)
Petersburg (Ky.)
Florence (Ky.)
Newport (Ky.)
Norwood (Ohio)
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Bibliographic citation(s)
FindAGrave.com, memorial #167379750
U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
California, Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959
California, U.S., Death Index, 1905-1939

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