[Gutenberg 23637] • The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929) was an American author, born and raised in Marion, Ala. He was graduated from Howard College in 1878. Then he edited the Marion Commonwealth for a year. In 1892 he began writing a weekly column on livestock and literature for the Columbia Herald under the pen name of "Trotwood," later adopting it as his middle name. From 1893 until 1904 he was writing a column for Clark's Horse Review, a national publication based in Chicago. In 1905 he began his own magazine, Trotwood's Monthly, which featured anecdotes, history, stories and poetry. In 1906, Moore published The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, a "social problem" novel about child labor in Southern cotton mills. From 1919 until his death he was director of libraries, archives and history of the State of Tennessee. His other works include: Songs and Stories From Tennessee (1897), Ole Mistis and Other Songs and Stories From Tennessee (1897), A Summer Hymnal: A Romance of Tennessee (1901), Uncle Wash: His Stories (1910), The Old Cotton-Gin (1910), The Gift of the Grass (1911) and Jack Ballington: Forester (1911).