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Beach (REX ELLINGWOOD an American)

REX (ELLINGWOOD), an American writer, born in Atwood, Mich., in 1877. He was educated at Rollins College, Fla., and studied law at the Chicago College of Law. His first novel was "Pardners," published in 1905. This was followed by a succession of novels, nearly all of which achieved great popular success. They include "The Spoilers" (1906); "The Silver Horde" (1909); "The Iron Trail" (1913); "Rain. bow's End" (1916). He also wrote, in BEACON antiquity, being referred to in Scripture (Jer. vi: 1), and were used by the Greeks and Romans. The intelligence of the capture of Troy is represented by Æschylus as having been conveyed convey to the Peloponnesus by signals of this kind.

In England, the beacons were formerly piles of faggot wood, but afterward poles were erected, to which iron pots were IN ANCIENT BEACON SIGNAL TOWER collaboration with others, several plays attached, filled with pitch and other was and a frequent contributor to magazines. In 1917 and 1918 he was president of the Authors' League of America.