Francis Grierson
Born: 1848 in Birkenhead, England
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Grierson lived in Sangamon County, Illinois for ten years. He also lived for a time in Chicago, Illinois. Biography: Francis Grierson was born Benjamin Henry Jesse Francis Shepard - he took his mother's family name when he published Modern Mysticism in 1899. He was born on September 18, 1848, in the town of Birkenhead, across the Mersey River from Liverpool, England. Distressed by the widespread economic depression (which by 1850 had sent nearly 19,000 English settler to Illinois alone), his parents emigrated in 1849 and settled the same year in Sangamon County.
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Selected Titles
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN : ISBN: 1330915291 OCLC: 976335090 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2016. |
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| CELTIC TEMPERAMENT : ISBN: 1330614623 OCLC: 982610357 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2016. |
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| INVINCIBLE ALLIANCE : ISBN: 1331200695 OCLC: 983174243 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2015. |
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| MODERN MYSTICISM : ISBN: 1330838319 OCLC: 975863830 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2015. |
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Modern mysticism, ISBN: 0804607303 OCLC: 47346 Kennikat Press Port Washington, N.Y., [1970] |
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The Celtic temperament, ISBN: 0804609225 OCLC: 57526 Kennikat Press Port Washington, N.Y., [1970] |
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The valley of shadows : ISBN: 0252061039 OCLC: 20170676 University of Illinois Press, Urbana : ©1990. |