Walter D. Edmonds(1903-1998)

American novelist Walter Dumaux Edmonds graduated from Harvard University in 1926, While at Harvard he was president of the Harvard Advocate magazine. A course in English awakened his interest in writing, and while still at the Advocate he submitted a story to "Scribner's" magazine, which published it. His first novel, "Rome Haul", was about the Erie Canal and sold well, eventually being turned into a Broadway play ("The Farmer Takes a Wife") by Marc Connelly and then being sold to Hollywood, where it ended up as John Ford's Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) (on which he served as Technical Advisor).