Facts: - other names: ashton lamar elliott whitney gordon stuart - known for: novels - death date: 31 may 1913 - birth date: 1863 - name: harry lincoln sayler - nationality: u.s.a. - death place: indianapolis , in - birth place: little york , montgomery co. , ohio - occupation: writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of harry lincoln sayler .
harry lincoln sayler -lrb- 1863 -- 1913 -rrb- was a newspaperman and novelist , under his own name and pseudonyms , including as a ghost writer for a popular youth fiction series .sayler graduated from depauw university .he married june elliott of shelbyville , indiana in 1889 .they had two children .by occupation sayler was a newsman , starting in 1886 in indianapolis .by 1889 he was working in chicago , eventually becoming general manager of the chicago city news bureau .sayler was interested in history and became a member of the illinois state historical society , the chicago historical association , and the louisiana historical association .he developed an expertise on the subject of pirates .sayler wrote three series of juvenile fiction relating to the then-novel technology of airplanes and flight .he wrote the '' boy scouts of the air '' series under the pen name gordon stuart , the '' aeroplane boys '' series as ashton lamar , and the '' airship boys '' series under his own name .sayler also wrote for another juvenile series , the '' boys ' big game '' series , under the pseudonym elliott whitney .