Talk:Horace Ezra Bixby

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A fact from Horace Ezra Bixby appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 September 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Horace Ezra Bixby, who taught Mark Twain to pilot a Mississippi steamboat, piloted the Union flagship at the Battle of Memphis?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Horace Ezra Bixby.

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The following scholarly article exists: Loges, Max L. "Horace Ezra Bixby: The Life and Times of a Frontier Pilot" Mark Twain Journal 36:1 (1998): 19-40. Unfortunately, I have no further information on what it might contain.

There is an article on Horace Bixby in the Dictionary of American Biography on page 306....of which volume I do not know. This seems to be the source of the claim that his first marriage took place in 1860.

The Sattelmeyer entry references a doctoral dissertation which may also give additional information.

As I have no access to any of these, anyone who does should be bold. Davidhof (talk) 20:03, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Genealogy

The information about H.E.B.'s second wife and children is all confirmed in one way or another in the various references cited...one child here, another child there, etc. It is nicely summarised by Lundy, Janet. "Horace Ezra Bixby". Retrieved 10 August 2014. on rootsweb, and in a number of other genealogy sites, but since these are not proper secondary sources, I did not list them in the references. Davidhof (talk) 20:03, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]